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Duty - AQA AS Law Unit 2
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- 1Define Negligencea legal duty of care that has been breached and the breach has caused damage.
- 2when would you act under a duty of care?Donohue v Stevenson - avoid acts that would be reasonable forseeable to injure your neighbour (closely or directly effected by my act) - Caparo v Dickman = neigbour test
- 3Name the 3 parts of the neighbour test:1. reasonably foreseeable
2. sufficient proximate relationship
3. fair reasonable and just to impose a duty - 41. damage or harm reasonably forseeableyes - Kent v griffiths ambulance failed to arrive earlier - forseeable that har would occur
no - Bourhill V Young motocyclist would not have seen the damage to baby - 52. sufficiently proximate relationship between the claimant and the defendantyes - osman v ferguson real risk of attack on school boy as close relationship
no - hill v chief constable of west yorkshire - didn't know next victim - 63. fair, just and reasonableyes - capital and counties plc. v hampsire county council - firemen turned off sprinkler system
no - hill v chief constable of west yorkshire - done everything they could
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