LAW1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mount Isa Mines, Lord Advocate, Breach (Security Exploit)
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Topic (cid:1005)(cid:1006): neglige(cid:374)ce - re(cid:373)ote(cid:374)ess of the kind suffered by the plaintiff might result from the defendant"s negligence. To succeed in a negligence action, the plaintiff must establish that the harm suffered was not too remote. It must have been reasonably foreseeable that harm. Harm will be categorised either boradly or narrowly. The better approach is that normally a broad categorization of the kind of harm in question should be adopted. Mount isa mines v pusey have suffered from such a rare form of mental disturbance. Facts: an employee had suffered terrible electrical burns as a discovered they had died. P suffered a rare form of schizophrenia, and sued his employer in negligence. result of d"s negligence. P tried to help the burns victim and later. D tried to argue that it wasn"t reasonably foreseeable that p would was reasonably foreseeable.
