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Cards (8)

  • ++ supports aims of tort - morality (neighbour principle)
  • -- caparo test - fair, just and reasonable test is vague and unpredictable (favours public authorities) (hill) may cause defensive policing, medicine
  • ++ caparo test - fair, just and reasonable (hill) vagueness can be good as courts decide case by case, prevents floodgates
  • -- foreseeable and reasonable are subjective terms
  • ++ only apply caparo test in novel circumstance (robinson) better, saves time
  • -- no definition for proximity, too vague with unclear case law (bourhill)
  • ++ (bourhill) prevents floodgates
  • -- overlap of foreseeability between caparo and remoteness for damage