A medical practitioner when consulted by a patient owes him certain duties, viz., a duty of care in deciding what treatment to give and a duty of care...
If a person is confronted with a dangerous situation not of his own making, he cannot be held liable for negligence. Even if there are several courses open...
There are four requirements necessary to establish a duty of care. They are:- (1) forseeability of harm; (2) proximity in relationship, which implies that the parties are so...
Negligence is breach of duty caused by the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the human affairs would do,...
The definition of negligence involves three constituents:- (1) A legal duty to exercise due care on the part of the party complained of towards the party complaining the...
According to Winfield, “negligence as a tort is breach of a legal duty to take care which results in damage, undesired by the defendant to the plaintiff.”
In the law of torts, negligence has two meaning:- (i) Negligence as a mode of committing certain tort e.g. trespass nuisance or defamation. In this sense negligence involves...
The privilege will be lost in the cases:- (a) where it goes beyond the limits of duty or interest, (b) where the occasion is not legitimately used but...
It has been held that the occasion of making each of the following statement is absolutely privileged:- (1) any statement by a judge as such, (2)any statement made...
