LAW1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ginger Beer, 8 Mm Video Format, Daryl Dawson
4 Nov 2018
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Video 1: outline of negligence and introduction to duty of care. Situations in respect of which it is settled law that a duty of care exists; Situations in respect of which it is settled law that no duty of care exists; and. If the defendant was careless ---> foreseen harm. It is only necessary that harm of some kind was foreseeable from the general activity in question. Video 4: issues to which "reasonable foreseeability" gives rise (part ii: vulnerable plaintiffs. Sued for negligence and was successful people who might reasonably be expected to walk along the footpath: that duty extended to blind people if the defendants ought to have foreseen that blind people might walk along the footpath. It was reasonably foreseeable that a blind person might pass along the footpath on the day in question: haley compared to levi. Law became more aware of the diversity in society: blind people not considered to be abnormal.
