Essay on The Tort of Negligence

Negligence "is the breach of a legal duty to take care which results in damage, undesired by the Defendant to the Claimant."

21. The malicious and negligent conduct of Piper Reed was reckless disregard of Plaintiff’s rights, harm to physical well-being and invasion of personal space and therefore warrants the imposition of punitive damages.

Establishing negligence requires the plaintiff to prove the three elements of negligence before a court. The elements are that, the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty of care, the duty of care was breached, and that the harms suffered were directly related to the defendant’s breach. For a successful claims the plaintiff must satisfy all three by the balance of probabilities, which has been the case since Donohue v Stevenson. Simon must therefore prove that there was a duty of care owed to him by the defendant, his teacher, Mr Philpot. Therefore, he must prove that the harm suffered would have been reasonably foreseeable due to the actions or omission of the defendant. In this case, Mr Philpot owes Simon a duty of care, as it is reasonably foreseeable that a failure to provide sufficient supervision could result in injury when considering the nature of the environment they are in and the age of the students. Therefore, the first element is satisfied.

Rule: For this to be consider a “Causation in fact”, someone is injured by another breaching a duty of care. This produces a cause and effect situation, to where someone’s act caused harm to another even if it was accidental. If this particular harm could occur without the defendant’s act causation in fact would be out the question, but for harm to come with the defendant’s act and it has no way of occurring without it means it is indeed “causation in fact.” This cause is usually determined by the “but for test”.

Art and Bill were leaving work one afternoon when they were approached by Charlie, who was

Issue: whether a person who unintentionally hurt another person is liable for the harm through intentional harm.

The issue in this case as it relates to the Kentucky tort of negligence is governed by rules or principles established by the courts. The elements of negligence are a duty the defendant owes to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty by the defendant, a causal connection between the breach and the plaintiff's injury, and actual injury. In the absence of any one of these elements, no cause of action for negligence will lie.

Thus, there should be reasonable foresight of the harm and there should also be relevant proximity to the neighbour (Horsey and Rackley, 2013, p.32). For example, with regards to reasonable foresight, actions of third parties cannot be adduced to the main party, as the main party would no be reasonably able to foresee this (Topp v London Country Bus [1993] 1 WLR 976). Similarly, with regards to proximity, the negligence of the defendant must have directly impacted the claimant, rather than through an indirect fashion (Bourhill v Young [1943] AC

There are number of civil wrongs and torts, the most widely known being negligence (Stauntan, 2013). The negligence can be referred to as 'failure to provide sufficient care' through an act or omission. Nurse negligence occurs where there’s a breach of a nurse’s duty of care and they fail to meet the standard of care (Atkins, 2014). In order for nurse's action to be negligent, four conditions must be met that is: the nurse must have a duty of care towards the patient, there is a breach in that duty of care, harm resulted to the patient and the harm is foreseeable ( Atkins, 2014).

1. Alan was driving down a quiet country road in his new sports car, well over the speed limit. Bev pulled out of her drive, not looking properly, straight into the path of Alan's car. Alan braked, skidded and crashed in Bev's car. Bev was badly injured, though the damage to Bev's car has been estimated at £6000.

This case is certainly defendable with a strong opportunity to have the jurors decide that the Builders are 51% or more responsible for any negligence. 49 of the 100 responding jurors (49%) found no negligence against the named defendant, and 67 of the jurors (67%) found the unnamed third party (the Builders) negligent. Favorable jurors questioned the due diligence of the Builder when evaluating individual lot soil conditions and determining the appropriate foundation for each property.

The law has historically been reluctant to impose a general liability for omissions as opposed to positive acts. This means that there is no general duty of care in tort to act in order to prevent harm occurring to another. In Smith v Littlewoods Organisation, Lord Goff stated clearly that “the common law does not impose liability for what are called pure omissions”. Similarly, in Yuen Kun Yeu v A-G of Hong Kong, Lord Keith stated that people can ignore their moral responsibilities to prevent harm occurring to another, even when it is easily within their power to do so. He added that it would be unthinkable for there to be “liability in negligence on the part of one who sees another about to walk over a cliff

"You or your insurance company is not paying this doctor a fistful of cash just to fuck around. Doctors are busy people who see dozens, if not hundreds of patients a week, so they're not going to normally remember you unless you've built up a rapport over years. But four times in six weeks? His memory can't be that bad

Nursing homes have the potential to have tort liabilities if the problems are not corrected if harm should occur. A nursing home is a busy place and with different people coming and going throughout the day. A nursing home is a high demand for care of residents. Nursing home staff should be knowledgeable about the resident’s quality of care and should be licensed to perform the care that is given.

Based on the question, the issue in the question is will there be a contract of sale of goods act 1895(SA) under s 1? Hence, the law is s 1 where a contract of goods is a contract whereby the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property the goods to the buyer for a money consideration based on the case Toby Construction Products Pty Ltd v Computer Bar Sales Pty Ltd. The application is under s1 sale of goods act there is a contract form between me and Mandela where I have agreement, intention and consideration to buy the armchair from Mandela, thus contract is form. Besides that, armchair is considered goods and there is consideration of money where I