Breach of Duty of Care in UK Law

  • Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Abril 1988
    ... ... go on to allege that it was accordingly the duty of the defendant and all officers in his police ... best endeavours and exercise all reasonable care and skill to apprehend the perpetrator of the ... who suffers such injury by reason of breach of that duty ... 6 There ... ...
  • Lloyds Bowmaker Ltd v Britannia Arrow Holdings Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 Marzo 1987
    ... ... ways: firstly, it is alleged as breach of an implied term in a contract between them; ... It denies that Lavens personally owed any duty to Britannia Arrow, either in contract or in ... pleaded as a case of breach of the duty of care of an expert adviser and breach of an implied ... ...
  • Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
    • House of Lords
    • 15 Julio 1999
    ... ... to Governors (IG 1/1994) w hich said: "The care of prisoners who are at risk of suicide and ... Lynch was a suicide risk, they owed him a duty to take reasonable care to prevent him from ... that the police had been negligent and in breach of this duty by failing to shut the wicket hatch ... ...
  • Roberts v Gill & Company and Another
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 Mayo 2010
    ... ... that a claim that the solicitors owed a duty of care to beneficiaries would be difficult to ... proceedings against the solicitors for breach of duty of care owed to him as beneficiary of Mrs ... ...
  • Jones v Kaney
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 Marzo 2011
    ... ... for failure to exercise reasonable skill and care in the conduct of litigation on behalf of the ... it did not protect them from actions for breach of duty of care. In the light of the authorities ... ...
  • Barber v Somerset County Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 Febrero 2002
    ... ... an analysis of the nature of the legal duty imposed on employers in cases of this kind (paras ... in which a court may find an employer in breach of his duty (paras 32–34). This part of the ... well as for drivers, manufacturers, health care professionals and many others whose carelessness ... ...
  • Alcock and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Noviembre 1991
    ... ... the question whether the defendant owed a duty of care in relation to nervous shock to any, and ... show causation, then the defendant was in breach of duty and liable in damages to that plaintiff ... ...
  • Esso Petroleum Company Ltd v Mardon
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 06 Febrero 1976
    ... ... that this "fatal error" was due to want of care on the part of Esso. There can be no doubt about ... or experience should have made, there is a breach of warranty. Just as there is a breach of ... that, in the case of a professional man, the duty to use reasonable care arises not only in ... ...
  • Multinational Gas and Petrochemical Company v Multinational Gas and Petrochemical Services Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 Febrero 1983
    ... ... as the plaintiffs' shareholders owed them no duty to ensure that the plaintiffs discharged their ... as shareholders were under any duty of care to the plaintiffs. In coming to this conclusion I ... of a duty of care owed to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty by the defendant and, thirdly, ... ...
  • Smith v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd; Maloco v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 05 Febrero 1987
    ... ... 4 The first question is what was the general duty owed by Littlewoods, as owners and occupiers of ... the appellants a duty to exercise reasonable care to ensure that the cinema was not, and did not ... of a given case there has been a breach of duty sounding in negligence ... ...
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