Legal commentary examines the establishment of a novel tort of intimate partner violence in Canadian jurisprudence, highlighting analytical issues and cautioning against uncritical adoption.
In Ahluwalia v Ahluwalia , the Supreme Court of Canada took the unprecedented step of inaugurating a novel ‘tort of intimate partner violence’ targeting coercive control. 1 In giving benediction to this new nominate tort, the judgment charts a creative path for the law of torts in Canada, which will be of interest to Anglo-Commonwealth scholars and jurists more broadly. This comment highlights the principal innovative aspects of the Court’s decision, while identifying some analytical issues in its reasoning and cautioning against its uncritical adoption.
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