Module 20 - Duty of Care in Negligence
Topics
- Negligence before Donoghue v Stevenson
- A general duty of care
- Duty of care as an issue of pure law - Human Rights dimension
- The test for the existence of a duty of care - Foreseeability and proximity
- Voluntary Assumption of Responsibility
- Which test?
- Acts and omissions
Cases
- A v Essex County Council, [2003] EWCA Civ 1848, [2004] 1 WLR 1881
- Anns v Merton London Borough Council [1978] AC 728 HL
- Arthur J. S. Hall & Co v Simons [2000] 3 WLR 543 HL
- Belgian Linguistic Case (No. 2) (1968) 1 E.H.R.R. 252
- Candler v. Crane, Christmas & Co. [1951] 2 K.B. 164
- Cann v. Willson (1888) 39 Ch.D. 39
- Caparo Industries plc v Dickman [1990] 2 AC 605 HL
- Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 HL
- East Suffolk Rivers Catchment Board v Kent [1940] 4 All ER 527
- Fayed v. United Kingdom, (1994) 18 E.H.R.R. 393
- Golder v. United Kingdom (1975) 1 E.H.R.R. 524
- Gorringe v Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council [2004] 1 WLR 1057 HL
- Heaven v Pender: (1883) 11 QBD 503
- Hedley Byrne & Co. Ltd. v. Heller & Partners Ltd. [1964] A.C. 465 HL
- Henderson v. Merrett Syndicates Ltd [1995] 2 A.C. 145
- Her Majesty's Commissioners of Customs and Excise v. Barclays Bank plc [2006] UKHL 28; [2006] 3 WLR 1; [2006] 4 All ER 256; [2006] 2 Lloyd's Rep 327 HL
- Hill v. Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [1989] AC 53 HL
- Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co. Ltd. [1970] A.C. 1004; [1970] 2 W.L.R. 1140 HL
- Lievre v Gould [1893] 1 QB 491
- Lithgow v. United Kingdom (1986) 8 E.H.R.R. 329
- Marc Rich & Co v Bishop Rock Marine Co, The Nicholas H [1996] 1 AC 211; [1995] 3 WLR 227 HL
- Mitchell v Glasgow City Council [2009] UKHL 11; [2009] 1 A.C. 874 HL
- Muirhead v Industrial Tank Specialities Ltd [1986] QB 507 CA
- Osman v Fergusson [1993] 4 All ER 344 CA
- Osman v United Kingdom (1999) 29 EHRR 245 E Ct HR
- Rondel v. Worsley [1969] 1 A.C. 191 HL
- Rowley v Secretary of State for Department of Work and Pensions [2007] EWCA Civ 598
- Smith v Eric S Bush [1990] 1 AC 831 HL
- Smith v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd [1987] AC 241
- St John Poulton's Trustee in Bankruptcy v Ministry of Justice [2010] EWCA Civ 392; [2011] Ch. 1; [2010] 3 W.L.R. 1237 CA
- Stovin v Wise [1996] AC 923; [1996] 3 WLR 388 HL
- Sutherland Shire Council v Heyman (1985) 60 ALR 1
- White v Jones [1995] 2 AC 207 [1995] 2 WLR 187 HL
- Williams and Another v. Natural Health Foods Ltd. and Another [1997] 1 B.C.L.C. 131
- Williams and Another v. Natural Life Health Foods Ltd. and Another [1996] B.C.L.C. 288
- Williams v Natural Life Health Foods [1998] 1 WLR 830 HL
- Yuen Kun Yeu v Attorney General of Hong Kong [1988] AC 175
- Z v United Kingdom (2002) 34 EHRR 3; The Times, May 31 2001 E Ct HR
