CN AO1 cases

which case first established duty of care?

Donoghue v Stevenson

who created the “neighbour principle”?

Lord Atkin

which case is now the leading precedent for duty?

Robinson v CC of West Yorkshire

doctor-patient

Montgomery v Lanarkshire

employer-employee

Walker v Northumberland CC

case test needed for novel situations

Caparo

public policy concerns

Coles v Davis-Gilbert

objective standard of a “reasonable person”

Blyth v Birmingham Waterworks

ordinary person

Wells v Cooper

professionals

Bolam

learners

Nettleship v Weston

children

Mullins v Richards

special characteristics of C

Paris v Stepney BC

foreseeable risk

Roe v Minister of Health

reasonable precautions

Latimer v AEC

social utility/ benefit

Barnes v Scouts Association

factual causation

Barnett v Chelsea Kensington Hospital

legal causation, remoteness, damage must be reasonably foreseeable

Wagon Mound #1

thin skull rule

Smith v Leech Brain

intervening acts

Knightly v Johns