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The Case Of Donoghue V Merton London Borough Council

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Principle set out in Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] and two stage test of Anns v Merton London Borough Council [1978]. In summary the case of Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] laid the foundations for Negligence as a Tort in its own right. The Neighbour principle provided by Lord Atkin is still fundamental in law to this day although there have been as we have discussed evolutionary changes to the law. Whilst the Neighbour principle defined by Lord Atkin has had its fair share of criticism as well as praise, it has been fundamental to the evolution of the concept of Duty of Care and the evolution of the law more generally in relation to Negligence.
PART B
The second part of this assignment will look at the development of the law in the area of strict liability for animals which do not belong to a dangerous species and the effect which the case of Mirvahedy v Henley [2003] had on this area of law. Reference will be made in particular to section 2(2) of the Animals Act 1971 which is applicable to this case.

The Animals Act 1971 was introduced as a result of the Law Commission report in 1967 on Civil Liability for Animals. The intention of this Act was to simplify the common law rules on strict liability for damage caused by animals (Rodway QC and Todd, 2006). The essence of strict liability is that negligence does not need to be proven for the defendant to be liable (Mackenzie,2012) thus the Animals Act ascribes liability, in certain circumstances, in the absence of fault ( de

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