Outline the meaning of the terms breach and damage, and consider how they apply in this situation.

... (Question from aqa.org.uk - January 2007 past paper.) Pat was driving her car and stopped at a set of red traffic lights. Reuben was driving a van behind Pat. He failed to notice that Pat had stopped and drove into the back of her car. Pat was uninjured, but her passenger, Tariq, suffered a severe neck injury and was unable to work as a self-employed dancer for three months 2 a) ii )Outline the meaning of the terms breach and damage, and consider how they apply in this situation. After finding that the defendant owes the claimant a duty of care, the next stage to proving negligence is whether the defendant has breached the duty. To satisfy that the duty has been breached, the court has to find how foreseeable the injury was. If the injury was not foreseeable, it cannot be said that the duty has been breached. For example, in Roe v Minister of

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