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5 Σεπ 2024 · In general, a duty of care is a legal obligation one person owes to another to exercise reasonable caution when doing something that could foreseeably cause harm. The definition may seem simple...
plaintiffs.'0 The duty to the plaintiffs arose because the defendants undertook to answer their inquiries concerning Taylors. The breach consisted, not in the failure to keep their own accounts in order, but in giving an apparently authoritative answer to the plaintiffs, knowing it would be accepted as such, when they ought
A negligent misrepresentation is made out where the statement maker has belief in his statement, but has been careless in reaching this conclusion. It is considered ‘negligent’ as there has been a breach of duty of reasonable care and skill when making the statement.
The standard of care is defined as the measures that a reasonable person (in the circumstances of the defendant) take to reduce the risk of harm. This is an objective standard where the 'reasonable person' test is applied to determine if the defendant has breached their duty of care.
Negligence thus is most usefully stated as comprised of five, not four, elements: (1) duty, (2) breach, (3) cause in fact, (4) proximate cause, and (5) harm, each of which is briefly here explained. 1. DUTY. Duty, obligation of one person to another, flows from millennia of social customs, philosophy, and religion.
Abstract. If the existence of a duty of care is a question of law (and it is, even though the duty question is now said to be so heavily dependent on the proven facts that courts are reluctant to strike out a claim on the pleadings), the question whether the defendant was or was not in breach of that duty is surely one of fact.
This chapter focuses on the second of the requirements necessary to establish a claim in the tort of negligence—breach of duty. Breach occurs where a defendant has fallen below the particular standard of care demanded by the law.
