Malicious prosecution and abuse of process at common law are torts that provide causes of action against private defendants for unjustified harm arising out of the misuse of governmental processes. 2 C. Addison, Law of Torts 1, p. 65, para. 852, and n. 2, p. 82, para. 868, and n. 1 (1876); T. Cooley, Law [...]

Although section 2 4 211, 1B C.R.S. (1980), expressly grants the General Assembly the right to abrogate common law remedies, “we will not lightly infer a legislative abrogation of that right absent a clear expression of intent.” Kristensen v. Jones, 195 Colo. 122, 124, 575 P.2d 854, 855 (1978) (emphasis added); see also Robinson v. [...]