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Liability in Negligence - Coggle Diagram
Liability in Negligence
Element 1: Duty of care
Donoghue v Stevenson (1932)
Neighbour principle
Caparo Industries v Dickman (1990)
- Established the 3-part Caparo Test
Damage was foreseeable
Kent v Griffiths (2000)
Sufficiently proximate relationship
Bourhill v Young
Just, fair and reasonable
Mulcahy v Ministry of Defence (1996)
Element 2: Breach of duty of care
Standard of Care- reasonable man
Nettleship v Weston (1971)
Probability of harm being done
Bolton v Stone (1951)
Magnitude of likely harm
Paris v Stepney Borough Council (1951)
Cost and practicality of preventing risk
Latimer v AEC Ltd (1953)
Potential benefits of risk
Daborn v Bath Tramways (1946)
Special characteristics
Mullin v Richards (1998)
Element 3: Resulting damage
Causation
Barnett v Chelsea & Kensington Hospital Management Committee (1968)
Remoteness of Damage
Wagon Mound (No. 1) (1961)
Foreseeability of damage
Smith v Leech Brain (1962)
Intervening causes
'res ipsa loquitor'
Gee v Metropolitan Railway (1873)
'novus actus interveniens'
Knightley v Johns and Others (1982)
Psychiatric Injury
Primary victims
Secondary Victims
Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1992)