What Common Law Decision Provides the Leading Analysis of the Principles

question 53

Multiple Choice

What common law decision provides the leading analysis of the principles underlying the corporate opportunity doctrine?

• A) Re City Equitable Fire Insurance Co. [1925] 1 Ch 407
• B) Canadian Aero Service Ltd. v. O’Malley [1974] S.C.R. 592
• C) Peoples Department Store v. Wise (2004), 244 DLR (4th) 564 (S.C.C.)
• D) BCE v. 1976 Debenture Holders (2008) SCC 69

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Definitions:

Self-Delusional Thought

A false belief or thought process maintained despite evidence or reality to the contrary, typically serving as a defense mechanism.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember information at the beginning of a list or sequence better than information in the middle or at the end.

Fundamental Attribution Error

A cognitive bias that involves overestimating the effect of personality or disposition and underestimating the effect of situational factors when interpreting the behaviors of others.

Defensive Attribution

A psychological process by which individuals tend to attribute more blame to victims and less to perpetrators when they see themselves as similar to the victim.