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... Various issues of Tort law (Based on a fictional case) Sam Coppock Parties in litigation can only be held liable in negligence if it can be shown that they owed a duty of care to another party who suffered an injury caused by a breach of that duty of care and that the harm was reasonably foreseeable. Even if these criteria are met there are several defences available to the defendant. I will approach the situation regarding each injury in light of this model. Caroline was a passenger in peters car. In Donohugh v Stevenson Lord Atkin stated that "You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour. Who, then, in law is my neighbour? The answer seems to be - persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as
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