Breach of Duty of Care in UK Law
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Homicide law enacted.
... ... as a corporate body if there is a gross breach of duty of care, arising from a product or ... ...
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Firms pressured to come clean: shareholders are mobilising on climate-change issues.
... ... disclosure and risk management should be a breach of duty of care. He pointed out that it was ... ...
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Criminal Law Legislation Update
... ... of controlled waste without registering; breach of duty of care; and breach of an abatement ... ...
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“But we had obtained professional/legal advice!”. The disclosure conundrum and directors' dilemma
Purpose: In recent enforcement actions by several capital market regulators in some common law jurisdictions, the issue of directors' reliance on legal advice in relation to compliance with their s...... ... ficient protectionagainst allegation of breach of directors’ duties and the disclosure ... have rightly upheld the standard of care expected to be exercised by directors or are ... activities ondirectors’ oversight duty.Keywords Duty of care, Skilland diligence, ... ...
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Can mere incompetence constitute a breach of fiduciary duty?
... ... Rather, it will illustrate that the courts are likely to place incompetence under negligence in tort or the breach of a general duty of care, as is evidenced by the common law ... What are fiduciary duties, and what are their functions? ... An appropriate starting point is to explore ... ...
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Munchkins Restaurant Ltd and another v Karmazyn, liability of employers for long-term harassment
Harassment, even of a verbal nature, can pollute the working environment and can destroy the health, confidence and the self-esteem of the victim. Of course, it is up to the claimants in these verb...... ... breach of this implied obligation of trust and ... a claim under the law of tort for breach of duty of care of the employer. Negligence In the ... ...
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Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board and the Rights of the Reasonable Patient
... ... they will need to make decisions about their care”.
3 ... become the “standard formulation” of the duty to disclose.19 ... Montgomery (Supreme Court) at ... ESTABLISHING BREACH OF DUTY AFTER MONTGOMERY ... ... -
The emergence of solicitors’ tortious liability and the award of damages
Analyses the emergence of tortious liability on solicitors and the damages awarded against them for negligence in preparing wills, ie testamentary disposition, when this causes losses to beneficiar...... ... of the client's aair wasalways for breach of contract. However, this case, instead of ... ®t ofC, the existence of B's contractual duty to A to do anact with proper care negates any ... ...
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CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE: THE SECOND PLAINTIFF
... ... the injury by her want of ordinary care, the father could not recover. (c) Burke ... the colliding vehicle owes a clear duty of care to such passenger, so that ... cause of action founded on a breach of duty of care owed to him ... ...
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Index
... ... Convention 374–7 multiple defendants breach of contract and negligence ... 382 ... (continued) damage not apparent, where 519 duty to give 519 failure to give, effect 519–20 ... corporate manslaughter breach of duty of care 586 case law 588–9 common law, and 584 ... ...
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