Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Legal Studies
Author: Kerry Sun
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,550
OpenAlex ID: W7208792238
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