When will a professional be held liable for error in judgment?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Newton v. Marzban, 2008 BCSC 328 (CanLII):
Second, a professional will not be found liable for an error in judgment unless that error was one that an ordinarily competent professional in the same field would not have made: Nichols v. Warner, 2007 BCSC 1383 at para. 106 [Nichols].
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