Donoghue v Stevenson

present. Element one is duty of care, meaning there is a legal obligation imposed in circumstances where harm could be reasonably foreseen to occur to others. This element can be found by applying the ‘neighbour principle’ established in the Donoghue v Stevenson case. The neighbour principle states that a person must take reasonable care to avoid omission which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour. Element two is breach of the duty of care. The plaintiff has the burden

create legal relations. Balfour v Balfour (1912) Categories of rebuttal – The nature of the document (if drafted by solicitor) - Agreement may expressly state legal relations - Surrounding Circumstance may indicate intention Merritt v Merritt (1970) -Significant reliance on promise- consequences are sufficiently serious. Wakeling v Ripley (1951) - COMMERCIAL NATURE- do intend to create legal relations. Edwards v Skyways (1964) Rebutted- Rose & Frank Co v JR Crompton & Bros Ltd (1925)

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Before 1932 there was no generalised duty of care in negligence. The tort did exist and was applied in particular situations where the courts had decided that a duty should be owed, eg, road accidents, bailments or dangerous goods. In Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562, Lord Atkin attempted to lay down a general principle which would cover all the circumstances where the courts had already held that there could be liability for negligence. He said: "The rule that you are to love your neighbour

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physical damage to the C’s property were investigated by the CoA in Spartan Steel v Martin (1973) QB 27 Like psychiatric injury, pure economic loss is often described as a problematic form of damage. Although floodgates arguments are sometimes encountered in this area, there are other reasons why a duty to take care not to cause foreseeable economic loss to the claimant is not always appropriate. Hale J, McLoughlin v Jones (2002) Psychiatric injury is different in kind from economic