Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Punitive Damages, Haemophilia, Sutton London Borough Council
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5 elements of negligence: (you must go through all of them to be found liable in the tort of negligence: duty, standard of care, causation, remoteness, damages. These have to be dealt with separately: eg. one person shoots someone in the arm, someone else shoots them in the leg. The person who caused the injury to the arm would have caused that injury, but not the injury to the leg: but for (without) the defendant"s negligence, would the plaintiff have suffered the. They took him to a hospital after they found him and told the doctor he wasn"t feeling well after drinking tea. The doctor misunderstood and thought he was drinking, and sent the man home. When someone yelled that they were there, he got excited and drove his car off the boat. He sued the company because they used to have a rope across the edge and they didn"t have it there anymore.
