Paddle River Dam, the subject of Opron v Alberta

It has been proving hard to find time to make as much progress as I would like with my book on Extra-contractual Recoveries. Every time I think I am going to have a bit of a window to crack on, some real-life work appears to intervene.
Nevertheless, I have been pushing on with the very interesting Canadian cases on negligent misstatement. Ironically, the fact that they never enacted anything along the lines of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 seems to have added fuel to the fire of misrepresentation claims there.
Opron v Alberta (1994) 151 AR 241 is a particularly interesting case, although it suffers from the blight of being a very long judgement. It does seem to be the case that very lengthy judgements, such as Alstom v Yokogawa (No 7), tend to miss out on the attention that they deserve simply Continue reading →