Duty of Care

• Capital & Counties plc v Hampshire County Council (1997)


  Although firefighters wouldn't usually be liable for failing to put out a fire, it was FJR to impose a duty when a firefighter turned off sprinklers and made the fire worse.
• Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (1990)


  Not FJR to impose a duty on police for failure to catch killer sooner - the threat of being sued could restrict future investigations and open the floodgates to a large volume of claims.
• McLoughlin v O'Brian (1983)


  A mother arrived in the immediate aftermath of a serious accident involving family members. There was sufficient proximity.
• Bourhill v Young (1943)


  A pregnant woman miscarried after she heard a motorcycle accident around the corner. She was not close enough in either time or space.
• Topp v London Country Bus (1993)


  A driver of a minibus left the bus unlocked with the keys in it. It was not foreseeable that the bus would be stolen and that the driver would then run someone over.
• Kent v Griffiths (2000)


  It was reasonably foreseeable that C would suffer harm from the failure of the ambulance service to arrive in a reasonable amount of time.
• What case is an example of duty of care - reasonably forseeable?

  Kent v Griffiths