Exceptions to Omissions

• Statutory Duty

  • An Act of Parliament can create liability e.g. failing to report traffic accident or parents legally responsible for children
• Contractual Duty

  • Failure to do duty
  • R v Pitwood
• Duty because of relationship

  • Usually parent and child
  • R v Gibbins and Proctor
• Duty which has been undertaken voluntarily

  • Allowing someone to live with you
  • R v Stone and Dobinson
• Duty through an official position

  • R v Dytham
• Duty which arises because the defendant set in motion a chain of events

  • Owing a duty and being liable
  • R v Miller