LAWS 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ginger Beer, Gastroenteritis, Regulatory Agency
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Donoghue was drinking a bottle of ginger beer and found a dead and decomposing snail at the bottom. Obviously, she was later diagnosed with gastroenteritis and shock and therefore sued the manufacturer, stevenson, for a number of reasons including breaching a duty of care to prevent her from getting sick directly because of drinking his product. The house of lords" ruling created the modern legal concept of negligence because it established the proximity principle which was based on a legal appreciation of who one"s neighbour is. It also established the concept of the duty of care. There was no precedent up to this point that said there definitely would be. Kamloops building inspector and kamloops city council fail to stop illegal construction. Hughes was the builder and didn"t comply with code. He claimed it was his retirement home and that the government should butt out.
