{"id":16903,"date":"2018-12-19T12:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsslex.com\/actualites\/the-court-of-appeal-agrees-with-elisabeth-laroche-in-a-professional-responsibility-case\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:32:38","slug":"20181219_the-court-of-appeal-agrees-with-elisabeth-laroche-in-a-professional-responsibility-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rsslex.com\/en\/news\/20181219_the-court-of-appeal-agrees-with-elisabeth-laroche-in-a-professional-responsibility-case\/","title":{"rendered":"The Court of Appeal agrees with \u00c9lisabeth Laroche in a professional responsibility case"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Cansica Holding Inc. c. Boidman<\/i>, 2018 QCCA 2130<\/a>, a decision rendered on December 14, the Court of Appeal endorsed \u00c9lisabeth Laroche\u2019s reasoning in defending a lawyer against a claim for professional responsibility.<\/p>\n

The lawyer had omitted to file a suit to recover amounts owing to his clients, thus precluding them to claim their debt on account of prescription. \u00c9lisabeth proved that even if a suit had been filed, most of the plaintiffs\u2019 debt could not have been recovered, considering the burden of proof.<\/p>\n

As a result, there was no causation between the lawyer\u2019s omission and the losses of his clients. And since causation is an essential element of professional responsibility, the claim against the lawyer was dismissed.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs also raised the \u201closs of chance\u201d theory, seeking compensation for \u201cthe damage which results from the loss of an opportunity either to realize a benefit or to avoid an injury\u201d. The Court rejected this argument on the basis of a 1991 decision where the Supreme Court of Canada stated \u201cit is only in exceptional loss of chance cases that a judge is presented with a situation where the damage can only be understood in probabilistic or statistical terms and where it is impossible to evaluate sensibly whether or how the chance would have been realized in that particular case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Cansica Holding Inc. c. Boidman, 2018 QCCA 2130, a decision rendered on December 14, the Court of Appeal endorsed \u00c9lisabeth Laroche\u2019s reasoning in defending a lawyer against a claim for professional responsibility. 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