1. Can you recall the 'holy trinity' of negligence from yesterday?
Date: Saturday, 16 February 2019
Tort Introduction
Lesson Outcomes:
Identify key elements of negligence
Explain development of law through cases
Specification links:
Liability in negligence for physical injury to people and damage to property.
Duty of care: neighbour principle; Caparo three-part test.
Breach of duty: concept of the reasonable man; risk factors, including characteristics of the defendant and claimant, magnitude of risk, practicality of precautions, social utility of the risk.
Damage: factual causation and legal causation (remoteness of damage).
Can you recall the 'holy trinity' of negligence from yesterday? 1

2. Breach of Duty Duty of Care Damage
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” Aristotle?
Breach of Duty
Degree of risk
Roe v Minister of Health
Bolton v Stone
Haley v London Electricity Board
Standard of Care
Paris v Stepney Borough Council
Practicability
Latimer v AEC
Bolam v Friern Hospital Management
Duty of Care
Donoghue v Stevenson & HL judgment
Caparo v Dickman & 3 Caparo tests
Reasonably forseeable
Kent v Griffiths
Jolley v Sutton LBC
Bourhill v Young
Topp v London Country Bus
Proximity
Hill v Chief Constable of W. Yorkshire
Osman v Ferguson
Fair, just & Reasonable
Capital & Countries
Damage
Causation
Barnett v Chelsea and Kensington Hospitals
Remoteness of Damage
The Wagon Mound
Crossley v Rawlinson
Thin skull rule
Smith v Leech Brain & Co
Hughes v Lord Advocate