Rogers soccer team completed the entry form and submitted the fee to participate in a local weekend promotional tournament. Several players in the opening games became nauseated and very ill due to exposure to residue from a pesticide sprayed on the fields an hour earlier. In formulating a legal argument, which of the following could be applied to reach the equivalent to the standard of care set by Manitoba occupiers liability legislation?

• A

  standard of common law duty of care

• B

  negligence standard

• C

  standard of statutory duty of care

• D

  neighbour standard

True 7 false

The tort of negligence is the most uncommon of the torts that arise in a business context.

The word tort is a legal term used to describe any type of harm or injury caused by one person to another, excluding instances of breach of contract.