What is the standard of care required for an occupier to be negligent in their occupancy of a building?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sapia v Invermere (District), 2018 BCSC 1145 (CanLII):
An occupier’s conduct will be negligent if it creates an “objectively unreasonable risk of harm”. The standard of care required is that of “an ordinary, reasonable and prudent person in the same circumstances”. Reasonableness depends on the facts of each case: Ryan v. Victoria (City), 1999 CanLII 706 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. 201 at para. 28.
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