What is the legal test for inducing breach of contract?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Edinburgh Developments Ltd. v. Vanderlaan, 1974 ALTASCAD 31 (CanLII):
In Posluns v. Toronto Stock Exchange (supra) Mr. Justice Gale set out three heads of justification for inducing breach of contract, the third of which he stated in the following terms at p. 608: “Lastly, a person may be justified in encroaching upon another’s civil rights because of some statutory or contractual privilege.”
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