Showing posts with label Negligent Misrepresentation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Negligent Misrepresentation. Show all posts

Saturday 8 September 2012

Employer Liable for Misrepresenting Position


I tend in this blog to focus on recent case law, a trend I do not intend to stop. However, from time to time, it is interesting to focus on the classics, the foundations of Canadian employment law.

One of the key cases in this area is Queen v. Cognos Inc., 1993 CanLII 146 (SCC), [1993] 1 SCR 87; a case often thought of as establishing the test for the tort of negligent misrepresentation. And, while it is true that Cognos is the leading case on that point, Cognos was also an employment case and the facts underlying it are unfortunately more common than they should be.