SOSC 1375 Chapter : reasonable person presentation.docx
15 Dec 2013
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Cynthia antony: the problem with the reasonable person. The reasonable person has been a central figure in the landscape of the law. The reasonable person has, for instance, embodied the fault component of the law of negligence and played an important role in criminal law, particularly in the defences. He has also come to personify the appropriate level of care in various aspects of contract law, administrative, and elsewhere. In this respect, the reasonable person is universal and omnipresent. However this idea faced much criticism currently revolving around the difficulties inherent in fashioning a legal standard by reference to some idealized person. As complications arise when the actual person no longer so closely resembles his legal counterpart. The idealized legal standard of a person troubled many people as the difficulty posed when those characteristics do not represent the person actually judged. The notion was generally formed around what men do .
