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Provide reasoned arguments for why you agree or disagree with the above statement, illustrating your answer by reference to specific policy factors.
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"Policy considerations cannot, and should not, be avoided when determining the outcome of private law disputes. The fiction that judges merely apply the relevant legal principles in determining the rights and duties of private citizens is no better exposed than in the context of the creation of 'public interest' immunity in negligence." Provide reasoned arguments for why you agree or disagree with the above statement, illustrating your answer by reference to specific policy factors. In response to this question, I am going to focus on the policy decisions regarding 'police immunity' in negligence. I will consider mainly the decisions in Hill1, Osman2 ,Swinney3, and Costello4 and how these cases have developed the law of negligence. The term 'public interest' relates to a very broad range of reasons for denying a duty of care is owed by a public body. I am going to consider the most relevant of these issues in relation...
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