Can a plaintiff bring an action against a professional for negligence?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Kernohan v. Ontario, 2009 CanLII 37711 (ON SC):

In Thorpe v. Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police [1989] 2 All E.R. 827 (C.A.) [Thorpe], the court stated that if someone had brought an action against a professional for negligence, they could not necessarily point to past instances of negligence to prove that the defendant had a propensity to be careless.

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