What is the test for a higher degree of skill?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Timpano v. Alexander, 2008 CanLII 8270 (ON SC):
The exercise of the “higher degree of skill” possessed by specialists “must be assessed in light of the conduct of other ordinary (average ) specialists, (the generality) who possess a reasonable level of knowledge, competence and skill of professionals in Canada in that field.” Justice Sopinka in ter Neuzen v. Korn 1995 CanLII 72 (SCC), [1995] 3 S.C.R. 674 at p. 693. Context
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