Standard of Care in UK Law

  • Nettleship v Weston
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 June 1971
    ... ... As bad luck would have it, there was a lamp standard just by the kerb at that point. The nearside struck the lamp standard. Hr ... was convicted by the Sheffield Magistrates of driving without due care and attention. She was fined £10 and her driving licence was endorsed ... ...
  • B (Children) (Care Proceedings: Standard of Proof) (CAFCASS intervening)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 June 2008
  • Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority
    • House of Lords
    • 13 November 1997
    ... ... Bartholomew's suffering from croup and was treated under the care of the senior paediatric registrar, Dr. Janet Horn, and the senior house ... the standard represented by Dr. Dinwiddie's views. Accordingly he held that it had not ... ...
  • Hatton v Sutherland; Barber v Somerset County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 01 April 2004
    ... ... and should have taken before finding him in breach of his duty of care. …" ... 8 Hale LJ applied ... entitles the appeal court in a case such as this to consider the standard of care that the trial judge has held the defendant should have observed ... ...
  • Staveley Iron and Chemical Company Ltd v Jones
    • House of Lords
    • 31 January 1956
    ... ... with these questions of fact and also with questions as to the standard of care to be applied in the circumstances of the present case. I entirely ... ...
  • Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire
    • House of Lords
    • 28 April 1988
    ... ... police force to use their best endeavours and exercise all reasonable care and skill to apprehend the perpetrator of the crimes and so protect ... public interest, as tending towards the observance of a higher standard of care in the carrying on of various different types of activity. I do ... ...
  • Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 July 1986
    ... ... which he received during his long days and nights in the special care baby unit at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow ... 2 Sadly, ... What standard of care was demanded of those members of the medical and nursing staff who ... ...
  • Barrett v Enfield London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 17 June 1999
    ... ... 1 When the plaintiff was 10 months old, he was the subject of a care order in favour of the defendant, London Borough of Enfield. He remained ... to act in loco parentis and to provide the appellant with the standard of care which could be expected of a reasonable parent, including a duty ... ...
  • Anns v Merton London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 12 May 1977
    ... ... Whether a local authority is under any duty of care towards owners or occupiers of any such houses as regards inspection ... So, by the byelaws, a definite standard is set for foundation work (see byelaw 18(1)( b ) referred to above): the ... ...
  • M'Alister or Donoghue (Pauper) v Stevenson
    • House of Lords
    • 26 May 1932
    ... ... inspection owed a duty to her as consumer of the article to take care that there was no noxious element in the goods, that they neglected such ... be characterised as carelessness without applying too exacting a standard. But, as I have pointed out, it is not enough to prove the respondent to ... ...
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