Duty of Care Child in UK Law
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Vicarious Liability and Non‐Delegable Duty for Child Abuse in Foster Care: A Step Too Far?
In NA v Nottinghamshire County Council the Court of Appeal held that a local authority is not liable under vicarious liability or for breach of a non‐delegable duty when foster parents sexually or ...
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A Negligent Blow to Children at Risk: MAK and RK v United Kingdom (European Court of Human Rights)
In MAK and RK v United Kingdom the European Court found that the absence of a common law duty of care owed to parents by doctors falsely suspecting them of their child's abuse violated the European...... ... Court found thatthe abse nceof a common law duty of care owedto parents by doctors falsely ing them of their child’s abuse violated the European Convention on ... ...
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On Mothers, Babies and Bathwater: Distributive Justice, Tort Law and Prenatal Duties
In this article I seek to apply a general claim about tort law - that it should promote as one of its goals a better attainment of distributive justice - to the cont...... ... – to the context of maternal prenatal duty. My argument is that, contrary to common belief ... burden that a maternal prenatal duty of care would place on potential defendants’ autonomy, ... parties owe a duty of care to a born- alive child ( Payton v Abott Labs (1982); Montreal Tramways ... ...
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... ... is thought likely to benefit her future child. At the outset, Rights, Duties and the Body ... is to ask whether she owes a moral or legal duty to the child. It is too simple to answer that as ... woman have a moral obligation to take care not to harm her fetus? This question arises in a ... ...
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... ... is thought likely to benefit her future child. At the outset, Rights, Duties and the Body ... is to ask whether she owes a moral or legal duty to the child. It is too simple to answer that as ... woman have a moral obligation to take care not to harm her fetus? This question arises in a ... ...
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... ... is thought likely to benefit her future child. At the outset, Rights, Duties and the Body ... is to ask whether she owes a moral or legal duty to the child. It is too simple to answer that as ... woman have a moral obligation to take care not to harm her fetus? This question arises in a ... ...
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... ... is thought likely to benefit her future child. At the outset, Rights, Duties and the Body ... is to ask whether she owes a moral or legal duty to the child. It is too simple to answer that as ... woman have a moral obligation to take care not to harm her fetus? This question arises in a ... ...
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The Children Act 1989 in the highest courts
This article gives an account of the cases in which the Children Act 1989 has been interpreted and applied by the highest courts in the UK, the appellate committee of the House of Lords until Octob...... ... c riteria and the c ourts’ powers in care procee dings ! those consi dering the scope of ... with re spect to … the upbringing of a child … the child’s welfare IntroductionThe Law ... the judges, could they carry out their duty to make the child’s welfare their pa ramount ... ...
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Negligence and Human Rights Law: The Case for Separate Development
A number of judges and academics have argued in favour of the convergence of negligence law with human rights law. By contrast, the thesis of this article is that the two legal orders should develo...... ... on the nature and extent of the courts’ duty to give horizontal effect’ to Convention ... claim on the grounds that no duty of care was owed violated the claimant’s right of ... course of a discussion of negligence in the child protection context: Furthermore, the existence of ... ...
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NOTES OF CASES
... ... to have acted in breach of duty when they issued shares in order to ... F. A. MA”. CAN A CHILD SUE HIS PARENT IN TORT? A CHILD can sue ... to look after a child in his care, and due to a combination of this ... ...
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