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    Grade: A University of London LLB‚ 2nd year Tort Law Question Amber Valley Primary School was closed 6 months ago by Amber Borough Council (ABC)‚ the local education authority‚ which owns all the land and buildings. The school has been standing empty while ABC attempts to find a buyer for the site. Although ABC placed fencing around the site‚ local residents reported that youths had broken into the site on a number of occasions. Last week a group of youths from a nearby young offenders

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    Facebook.com/Thaya PK (Last minute Exam Revision) Tort: Negligence: MEDICAL Prima facie duty owed by the Hospital/Doctor to patient Cassidy v Ministry of Health (Vicariously liable) BREACH via Standard of Care Wilsher v Essex Experience irrelevant as a doctor; trainee or not‚ same standard “Bolam Test” Bolam v Friern Management Hospital Committee Expert opinion/body of professional opinion‚ vice-versa test Level of skill and competency Bolitho v City of hackney Health Authority Applied Bolam

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    Reading Michalos‚ ‘Douglas v Hello: the final frontier’‚ [2007] Ent. L.R. 241-246 Aplin‚ ‘The development of the action for breach of confidence in a post-HRA era’ [2007] IPQ 19-59 Aplin‚ ‘The relationship between breach of confidence and the "tort of misuse of private information’ [2007] Kings Law Journal 329-336 Aplin‚ ‘Commercial confidences after the Human Rights Act’ [2007] EIPR 411-419 Arnold‚ ‘Confidence in exclusives: Douglas v Hello! in the House of Lords’ [2007] EIPR 339 Arnold‚

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    True Story of Erin Brockovich Anderson v. PG&E [pic] Michael Kelly Business Law Professor Chowdry Erin Brockovich is the story of a woman who helped 650 people in Hinkley California get justice for the actions of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E.) The case was titled Anderson v. PG&E and was actually settled outside of court. It was settled in the Superior Court for the County of San Bernardino‚ Barstow Division. The parties agreed on a settlement of

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    Who is the reasonable man? Factors considered whether he adopted necessary care? Tort of negligence = failure by Def to conform with standard of behaviour. Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable person guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs would do or doing something which a prudent & reasonable person would not do. While a loss from an accident usually lies where it falls a defendant cannot plead accident if‚ treated

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    leniently by limiting their liability in some cases.  On one hand‚ the courts draw a line to mark out the bounds of duty to protect the interests of and compensate those who have suffered a loss and injury and this is also one of the major aims of tort law. In Donoghue v. Stevenson‚ the courts judged the manufacturer of the ginger beer‚ David Stevenson of Paisley owned a duty of care to Mrs Donoghue even though there was no contract between them. In Lord Aitkin’s “neighbour” principle‚ liability

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    PRACTICE QUESTION FOR TORTS John worked as a car/truck mechanic for a small business in Darlinghurst Sydney. He was a newly trained mechanic and had just commenced work at a new job last week. The day he started work he was given the task of repairing a truck engine. This required John to disassemble the engine with specialised tools. Mechanics who worked on these large engines were normally given protective head gear to prevent any piece of engine striking them in the face should a piece

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    Erin Mielzynski is a professional Canadian Alpine Skier. She is taking part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang this year and I hope her my very best. Let’s take a look at her life and see what it’s like to be a professional skier and how it feels to represent Canada at one of the most prestigious events of 2018! Erin Mielzynski was born on May 23rd‚ 1990 in the city of Brampton. She is currently 27 years old and her birthday is coming up in a few months. Her parents names are Andrew Mielzynski

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    Exclusion of responsibility terms It is possible to have a term in the contract which excludes one of the parties from responsibility for something that may go wrong in the performance of the contract or limits that responsibility. It is called an exclusion clause or an exemption clause. For example‚ an exclusion from liability for damage done to the lawn by a builder’s backhoe might be included in a contract between the builder and a home owner who is having an extension built to their home. Express

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    first case of feminization of poverty. Being a woman who does not have any proper education or skill‚ no one is willing to provide her with any form of opportunity through which she can provide for her young children. This situation goes on even after Erin is involved in an accident and goes ahead to lose the case which she had filed against the driver. Lack of employment and the necessary skills are highlighted from the interview scene where she had applied for employment in the doctor’s office (Brumley

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