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Negligence including Nervous Shock, Vicarious Liability, Defences and Damage 2Duty of care ..................................................................................................... 2
Nervous shock .................................................................................................. 4
Breach of duty of care........................................................................................ 6
Causation ......................................................................................................... 9
Remoteness of loss.......................................................................................... 11
Remedies ....................................................................................................... 12
Defences ........................................................................................................ 15
Vicarious liability ............................................................................................. 17
Pure economic loss – negligent misstatement - to be read with standard negligence .... 20
Occupiers Liability - to be read with standard negligence ......................................... 22
Product Liability - to be read with standard negligence ............................................ 26
Contract......................................................................................................... 26
Consumer Protections Act 1987 (‘Act’): .............................................................. 26
Tort of negligence at common law ..................................................................... 27
Private Nuisance: unreasonable interference with enjoyment of land ......................... 28
Who can sue? ................................................................................................. 28
Who can be sued? ........................................................................................... 28
Identify type of harm? ..................................................................................... 28
Unreasonable use of land? ................................................................................ 28
Public nuisance .................................................................................................. 30
Who can sue? ................................................................................................. 30
Remedies both in private & public nuisance: injunction (rare) and damages (common)
or injunction or abatement (self-help) ................................................................ 30
Rylands v Fletcher (1868) .................................................................................... 31
Defences: None, strict liability ........................................................................... 31
Remedies: ...................................................................................................... 31
Trespass to land: direct and unjustified interference with possession of land even if
unintentional...................................................................................................... 32
Elements of trespass to land ............................................................................. 32
Manifestations of trespass of land ...................................................................... 32
Defences ........................................................................................................ 32
Remedies ....................................................................................................... 32
Trespass to persons ............................................................................................ 33
Assault .......................................................................................................... 33
Battery .......................................................................................................... 33
False imprisonment ......................................................................................... 34
Wilkinson v Downton ....................................................................................... 34
Harassment .................................................................................................... 35
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