What is the standard of care for a professional?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kumar v. Picco, 2007 BCSC 1669 (CanLII):
Professional standards of conduct such as those prescribed in the CICA Handbook provide a persuasive guide as to what constitutes the standard of reasonable care for a professional: See ter Neuzen v. Korn, 1995 CanLII 72 (SCC), [1995] 3 S.C.R. 674 at 696-698.
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