Duty of care

• Donoghue v Stevenson

  Existence of duty of care for personal injury and property damages
• Caparo V Dickman

  developed Caparo criteria (ONLY MENTION IF HASN'T CREATED PRECEDENT)
• Kent V Griffiths (foreseeability)

  Ambulance called for claimant. Ambulance failed to arrive in time and claimant suffered respiratory attack - reasonably foreseeable that claimant would suffer further harm
• Bourhill V Young (proximity)

  Pregnant woman saw motorcyclist get into accident who died. She approached the scene and saw blood. She later gave birth to a still baby - not proximity in time, space and relationship
• McLoughlin V O'Brien (Proximity)

  Claimant's family were involved in serious car crash. She saw family before treated and suffered severe shock, personality change and depression - proximity as she saw immediate aftermath
• Hill V Chief constable of West Yorkshire (fair, just and reasonable)

  Hill final victim of serial killer. Hill's mother made a claim that police had been negligent

  USE FOR AN OMISSION
• Robinson V Chief constable of West Yorkshire

  Police officers attempted to arrest a suspected drug dealer which was foreseeable that the drug dealer would try to resist. Dealer escapes and police officers fell over elderly woman - use existing precedents to establish duty of care exists

  USE FOR AN ACT