Is a director or a servant of a corporation liable in tort for inducing or procuring a breach of contract?

In my opinion the above excerpt from the judgment of Maguire, J.A. strengthens rather than weakens the plaintiff’s position to retain the statement of claim as pleaded. While it is a general rule that the directors or servants of a corporation acting within the scope of their authority are not liable in tort for inducing or procuring a breach of contract by their employer, there is, nevertheless an exception to this rule. That exception is where “some ... of the directors . . . conspire, before the board meeting ... to induce the board as a whole wrongfully to break a contract by dismissing one of the company’s servants” (Porter, J., in De Jetley Marks v. Greenwood (Lord), supra).