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: pm: You have an important business meeting in Windsor for a job that you really want.
Unfortunately the day before the business meeting your car breaks down, and it will not be repaired in time for you to get to the business meeting. You do not have enough money to rent a car from a car rental agency so you ask a friend to borrow their car. They agree to lend it to
: pm: As you are leaving the parking garage after the business meeting, you don't judge your distance from the wall properly while you're going around a corner and you scrape the passenger side door on the concrete, causing serious damage to your friend's car.
Note: Please ignore insurance in answering this question and give complete explanations of your answers.
a What legal responsibility do you have for the damage to your friend's car and why or why not? marks
b If instead of going to a business meeting, you had borrowed your friend's car so that you could pick up your friend's dry cleaning, and damaged the car in the same way would you be legally responsible for the damage and why or why not? marks
c If your friend had charged you $ for the use of the car would you be legally responsible for the damage, and why? marks
d If the damage had happened because an unknown driver had parked too close to you after you had parked properly, and scratched the paint with his or her door would you be legally responsible for the damage? Why or why not? marks
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