BU231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Making Money, Partial Defence, Contributory Negligence
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Ethics & the workplace: difficulties faced by both employees and employers in avoiding unethical behaviour. One small step : overconfidence bias. Negligence: negligence is the careless causing of harm to the person or property of another, no intention to commit tort. To place the injured party back in the position s/he would"ve been had the tortious act not occurred. To take reasonable care to avoid injury to others. The injury must be reasonably forseeable: huge aspect, must be able to see somewhat that the event could have happened. The duty is not all encompassing you must owe a duty to the other person. Legal obligation placed on everyone to take care to avoid causing injury to others. Everyone has a duty to not injure their neighbour. You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour .
