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of Action: Professional Liability provides a succinct overview of professional negligence
m the standpoint of the litigator. It incorporates the latest case law and legislative
pments in an easy-to-understand format. This primer takes you step-by-step through
ic principles and issues in this area of the law and discusses how the various concepts
n practice and in litigation. Subjects covered include, among others, the following:
o is a professional?
fessional liability as compared to professional negligence
ments of a cause of action
ty of care generally and in specific situations
ach of the standard of care,
mages caused by the professional’s conduct
lated claims beyond negligence
ird parties and co-defendants
fessional liability insurers
medies
fences
adings
f Action: Professional Negligence also features sample precedents of pleadings, both
ents of claim and statements of defence as well as other court documents.
T THE AUTHOR
organ of Toronto, Ontario is a lawyer at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. His practice
a broad range of civil litigation and arbitration, including professional negligence,
g, class actions, administrative law, and employment matters. Eric has appeared as
l before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Ontario
or Court of Justice and the British Columbia Supreme Court. Eric also advises on
rruption issues and acts in international trade matters, having appeared before the
ian International Trade Tribunal.
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Eric Morgan
Dr Andrew Zawacki (1994, English) was recently awarded a poetry fellowship by The Howard Foundation, to
complete his new manuscript, ‘Unsun : f/11.’ Awarded every five years to a trio of mid-career poets, the $33,000
fellowship released Zawacki from teaching at the University of Georgia, where he is Associate Professor of English
and former Director of the Creative Writing Programme. While living in Nantes, France, with his family this year,
he is also translating Pierre Bergounioux’s récit B-17 G and continuing to work on a hybrid photo-parose project
about Parisian graffiti. His latest translation, of poet Sébastien Smirou, See About: Bestiary, is due from La Presse /
Fence Books in spring 2017. Zawacki was assisted in completing the volume by translation fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Centre National du Livre.
2000s
A startup co-founded by Dr Mark Catherall (2003,
Engineering) won a research and development competition
recently to receive funding from the Government.
Canopy Simulations provides simulations to F1 and other
motorsports teams through a cloud-powered web
platform. www.canopysimulations.com
Dr Oliver Cox (2006, History) has been appointed
as the University of Oxford’s inaugural Heritage
Engagement Fellow, responsible for developing
collaborative projects with UK and international
heritage organisations, and for managing the
University’s strategic partnership with the National
Trust. He was interviewed recently for Oxford’s
Alumni Voices podcast series and discussed ‘Capability’ Brown on BBC
Radio 4’s Broadcasting House on 21 August.
Life According to Saki, directed by Jessica Lazar
(2009, English), won the coveted 2016 Carol
Tambor Award, the highest honour at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play is due to have a
New York run in February/March 2017.
2010s
SE OF ACTION:
FESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE
Eric Morgan (2005, Law)
CAUSE OF ACTION:
PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE
is currently practising law
in Toronto, Canada at
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
LLP. Carswell has recently
published his first book,
Cause of Action: Professional
Negligence. The book examines the legal
elements as well as the practical steps
involved in professional negligence claims.
CAUSE OF ACTION: PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE Eric Morgan
Stefan Lachowycz (2010, DPhil Earth Sciences) has received a Fulbright-Lloyd’s
of London Scholar Award to conduct research in the USA on one of the
world’s most esteemed and selective scholarship programmes.
DPhil work on ‘Pulse of mid-Pleistocene volcanism in Ethiopia at the dawn of modern
humans’ from Univ alumnus Will Hutchison (2011, DPhil Earth Sciences), now a postdoctoral
researcher at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at St Andrews
University, has been published in Nature Communications. Will also received support for his
fieldwork from Univ.
Julia Gottwald (2012, MSc Neuroscience), PhD
Candidate in the Department of Psychiatry at
Cambridge has, with her PhD supervisor Professor
Barbara Sahakian, written a popular science book on
hot topics in neuroscience. Sex, Lies, & Brain Scans:
How fMRI reveals what really goes on in our minds will
be published in January by Oxford University Press.
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Harriet Rawson’s (2012, DPhil Earth Sciences)
recent thesis paper sets the scene for the first
results for the Department of Earth Science’s
Deep Volatiles work in Chile (a NERC funded
five year research programme: Volatiles, Geodynamics and Solid
Earth Controls on the Habitable Planet). Harriet’s work reveals
evidence for a new process deep within the Earth influencing the
chemistry of lavas at the planet’s surface. Harriet received support
from Univ for her fieldwork.
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