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Research Paper On Confidentiality

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PROBABILITY
Probability that the harm would occur is care were not taken, this could be that the risk of injury is deemed to be incredibly small that a reasonable person would not have considered in taking precautions. Such was the case in Bolton v Stone [1951] AC 850. This case taken in the house of the lords found that the cricket club was not liable over a ball going over a fence since the chance of it happening and causing damage was so small. The defendant argued that the ball was only ever struck over the fence twelve times in the thirty year history of the club.
SERIOUSNESS
The second factor is the likely seriousness of the harm, in this instance, even if the likelihood of risk being minute, but the consequences being high, a reasonable

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