Case Assignment

Plesase review the case, as presented, and provide your comment (s) on the Validity of the daims and identify the issues and point sof law that are raised byt he actions of Khalid Smith. Ho would you decide the case?

Please answer in paragraph or point form. A min of 100 to 150 words is expected.

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Klialid livedin a residential area some distance from where he worked. One morning, he found himself late for work because his alarm clock fiad failed to wake him at the usual time. In his rushto leave his home. Khalid backed his automobile out of his garage after only a cursory backward glance to make certain the way was clear He did not see a simall child riding a tricycle along the sidewalk beliind fiis car, and the two came into collision. The clild was knocked from the tricycle by the impact and was injured. The child's mother, at the front door of lher home (some 70 metres away), heard the child scream and saw the car back over tlie tricycle. She mn to the scene of the accident, picked up the child, and carried him home. Khalid called an ambulance. and the child was taken to the hospital and treated for a cruslied leg. Page 14 Tlie motlier brouglit a legal action against Khalid for damages resulting from the shock of seeing her child struck by Khalid's car An action was nlso brought on behalf ofthe child for the injuries suffered Discuss the validity of the claims in this case, and identify the issues and points of law that are raised by the actions of Khalid How would you decide the case?