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The principle requirements of the tort of negligence.
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The principle requirements of the tort of negligence are that the defendant (D) should owe the plaintiff a duty of care that there should be a breach of that duty and that breach of duty should cause actionable damage to the plaintiff, which is not too remote. Donoghue v Stevenson1 established the principle that D owes a plaintiff a duty of care if there is a relationship of neighbourhood in the sense that the plaintiff can be reasonably foreseen as likely to be affected by Ds act or omission. Put by Lord Atkin, ' persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question.' The Caparo2 case provided an extension of the rules set out in Donoghue v Stevenson. Lord Bridge's opinion...
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