AFM231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ginger Beer, Industrial Revolution, Reasonable Person

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM231
• Professor: Darren Charters

Document Summary

You will normally be defending a claim on negligence. Establishes neighbour principle for duty of care concept. Leads today to the four steps of proof. The case that brought the tort of negligence. In terms of the common law 80 years is not that long ago. A case comes infront of a judge in the uk who makes the fundamental development which creates this notion of negligence. Two ladies who had finished their day of work and went out for drinks/food. Ordered some ginger beer only one purchaser has bought the beer: handed the beer to her friend to drink. The first lady who ordered the beer drank half of it and then poured the rest out and a decomposed snail came out the bottle was opaque and could not been seen. She begins to get quite sick and she decides to sue the establishment owner.