Releases must be read as a ‘whole’ and consistent with ‘surrounding circumstances’: SCC

By Terry Davidson ( July 23, 2021, 6:19 PM EDT) -- The language in release agreements needs to be considered as a whole and alongside the surrounding circumstances known to litigants at the time of signing, ruled the Supreme Court in finding that a woman being sued by a municipal road worker she hit while driving cannot bring the city into the lawsuit as a third party....
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