Unit 2 Neg

Question 1

D can only be liable of negligence if they what?

3 things

Answer 1

1- they owe you a duty of years
2-they breach this duty
3-the breach causes damage

Question 2

Neighbour principle in Donoghue v Stevenson

Answer 2

Lord atkin stated

Anyone so closely and directly affected by what D did or did not do that D would have them in mind when thinking about it

Question 3

Duty of care modern approach

Answer 3

Caparo v Dickman

Question 4

1 modern approach

Is it reasonably foreseeable for D’s act or mission would cause harm to C

Answer 4

Kent V Griffiths

Bourhill V Young

Question 5

Kent v Griffiths

Answer 5

When the ambulance failed to turn up it was reasonably foreseeable that the patient waiting would suffer harm

Question 6

Bourhill v Young

Answer 6

C did not see the accident but heard it, went voluntarily to look at it causing her a miscarriage. This damage was not reasonably foreseeable.