Overview
ILCO’s Litigation Supplementary Material is a required supplementary
text for the 2008 Institute of Law Clerk’s fall term Associate Level
Litigation course offered at Ontario Community Colleges. This custom
course pack, that has been excerpted from several Emond Montgomery Working
with the Law texts, covers material on legal research, contract law, and tort
law.
Legal Research
Chapter 1
- How To Research a Subject
- Binding Law and Persuasive Law
- Which Secondary and Primary Sources May Be Useful?
- Performing the Research
Chapter 2
- Laws and Law Makers That Affect Business in Canada
- Sources of Law
Chapter 3
- Resolving Disputes and Navigating Canada’s Court System
- The Litigation Process in Small Claims Court
- Canada’s Court System
- The Role of Canadian Courts
Contracts
Chapter 4
- Formation of a Contract
- Elements of a Valid Contract
- Intention To Create a Legal Relationship
- Offer and Acceptance
- Consideration
- Introduction to Legality
- Form and Writing Requirements
Chapter 5
- Discharge of Contract
- Discharge Generally
- Discharge by Performance
- Discharge by Agreement
- Discharge as of Right
- Discharge by Operation of Law
Chapter 6
- Breach of Contract and Remedies
- Introduction
- Method of Breach
- Nature of Breach
- Remedies
- Choice of Remedies
Chapter 7
- Contract Interpretation
- Frustration
Chapter 8
- Missing Terms
- Contract Law
Torts
Chapter 9
- Tort Law
- What Is a Tort?
- The Importance of Tort Law for Business People
- Vicarious Liability
- Joint and Several Liability
- Elements of a Tort
- Categories of Torts
- Unintentional Torts
- Intentional Torts
- Intentional or Unintentional Torts
- Defending Against Tort Actions
- Remedies for Torts
