The appellant appealed an order requiring it to deliver a signed release.
The motion judge had held that releasing an individual partner's 'agents' also released his law firm from vicarious liability for his conduct.
The Court of Appeal disagreed, finding that while a partner is an agent of the firm under the Partnership Act, the firm is not generally an agent of the individual partner.
The appeal was allowed in part to permit the appellant to plead that the law firm was vicariously liable for the partner's conduct.
