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Duty of care
pre-existing duties
williams v holland 1833
road users
smith v baker 1891
employer-employee
slater v baker 1767
doctor-patient
coggs v barnard 1702
carriage of goods
dixon v bell 1816
custody of dangerous things
post donoghue v stevenson
haseldine v daw 1941
repairers and servicers
bolton v stone 1951
sport
general establishment
donoghue v stevenson 1932
Lord Atkin established the neighbour principle seeing that a duty of care is owed to the 'ultimate consumer', setting the foundation of the tort of negligence, without necessitating the existence of a contractual relationship
relations giving rise to a duty occur where persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question