The appellants appealed a trial judgment dismissing their negligence action against a school board and school officials for failing to protect their child from bullying.
Although the trial judge found that the respondents breached the standard of care by failing to investigate a prior bullying incident and misplacing related documentation, he concluded that none of these breaches caused the subsequent incident in which the child was injured.
The appellants argued that proper investigation of the earlier incident would have prevented the later injury.
The Court of Appeal upheld the trial judgment, finding no palpable and overriding error in the trial judge's causation analysis and factual findings.
