Duty of care: a collection of precedents. (Collection of English law cases) (English Edition)

This book is a collection of the three main cases that may be said to have formed the doctrine of "duty of care". Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] was a decision in Scots delict law and English tort law by the House of Lords which created the modern concept of negligence by setting out general principles whereby one person would owe a duty of care to another person. Caparo Industries plc v Dickman [1990] is a leading English tort law case on the test for a duty of care where the House of Lords set out a "three-fold test" of duty of care. Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd [1964] is an English tort law case on pure economic loss resulting from a negligent misstatement. Prior to the decision, the notion that a party may owe another a duty of care for statements made in reliance had been rejected, with the only remedy for such losses being in contract law. The House of Lords overruled the previous position, in recognising liability for pure economic loss not arising from a contractual relationship, introducing the idea of "assumption of responsibility".