ACCT-311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nervous Shock In English Law, Breach (Security Exploit), Reasonable Person
18 Mar 2016
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Behavior that falls below a socially exceptable standard. When one person causes injury to another and harms that person"s property, reputation, or person. Trespassing on your land, statement about you that"s not true (teacher harming child rep) , assault, accident. Intangible, tangible, $,reputation, injuries: reasonably foreseeable, proximity ex. The reasonable person test -> what would a reasonable person have done in the situation. Reasonable person = particularly careful, and better than average, if they had all the facts available. What about an emergency situation sudden peril doctrine recognize we may not make perfect decisions in emergency situations. (don"t need any more because of ema. Negligence = an unintentional or careless act that causes harm to another: a duty of care, breach of duty, causation, damages. Professionals must meet standard of reasonable professionability. Yes because their job title is to save lives and it should be held for the equitable accountability.
