What is the law on misfeasance in public office?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Creppin v University of Ottawa, 2015 ONSC 4449 (CanLII):
The law with respect to misfeasance in public office is set out in Odhavji Estate v. Woodhouse, [2003] SCC 69 which at paragraph 30 outlines the proposition that “… the underlying purpose of the tort is to protect each citizen’s reasonable expectation that a public officer will not intentionally injure a member of the public through deliberate unlawful conduct in the exercise of public functions”.
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