Cases Flashcards
Caparo industries plc v Dickman
The 3 part incremental test in deciding a duty of care
Haley v LEB
‘foreseeable’ under duty of care
Bourhill v Young
‘Not foreseeable’ under duty of care
‘Not proximate’ under duty of care’
Osman v Ferguson
‘Proximate’ under duty of care
Bolton v Stone
small risk of harm - no breach under breach of duty
Walker v Northumberland
Increased risk to (C) under breach of duty
Latimer v AEC ltd
resonable, practical precautions taken under breach of duty
Watt v HCC
serving a socially useful purpose under breach of duty
Barnett v Chelsea and Kensington HMC
factual causation under damage
McKew v Holland
Victims own actions under damage
Knightley v Johns
‘natural and probable result’, act of a third party under damage
Clerk and Lindsell on torts
treatment so grossly negligent, medical intervention, under damage
Smith v Leech brain
thin skull rule, remoteness under damage
Frost v CCOSYP
‘matter for expert psychiatric evidence’, recognised psychiatric condition under psychiatric harm
Vernon v Bosley
‘pathological grief disorder’, recognised psychiatric condition under psychiatric harm
Page v Smith
‘Chronic fatigue syndrome’, recognised psychiatric condition under psychiatric harm
- a person of normal fortitude, primary victims under psychiatric harm
Alcock v CCOSY
‘PTSD’, recognised psychiatric condition under psychiatric harm
Hinz v Berry
‘Morbid depression’, recognised psychiatric condition under psychiatric harm
Delieu v White
Primary victims