What is the current state of the law on the liability of a negligent manufacturer?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Old North State Brewing Co. Inc. v. Newlands Services Inc., 1998 CanLII 6512 (BC CA):

He referred to Moran v. Pyle National (Canada) Limited, 1973 CanLII 192 (SCC), [1975]1 S.C.R. 393, a tort case, where Mr. Justice Dickson (as he then was) said in reference to a negligent manufacturer: By tendering his products in the market place directly or through normal distributive channels, a manufacturer ought to assume the burden of defending those products wherever they cause harm as long as the forum into which the manufacturer is taken is one that he reasonably ought to have had in his contemplation when he so tendered his goods. This is particularly true of dangerously defective goods placed in the interprovincial flow of commerce.

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