Eduqas A-Level Law the law of tort (Components 2 and 3) overview quiz quiz

Caparo Industries v Dickman

Bolton v Stone

Donoghue v Stevenson

The Wagon Mound (No 1)

Duty of care, breach of that duty, and damage that is not too remote

Control, integration and economic reality, the tests used for employment status

Knowledge of the danger, the danger itself, and reasonable protection against it

Foreseeability, proximity, and fair, just and reasonable to impose a duty

The but for test

The Caparo test

The Bolam test

The close connection test

The Occupiers Liability Act 1984

The Occupiers Liability Act 1957

The Consumer Rights Act 2015

The Compensation Act 2006

A natural use

An agricultural use

A non-natural use

A domestic use

The but for test of factual causation

The Caparo three-part test for duty

The neighbour principle from Donoghue

The close connection test

The standard of the reasonable person doing that activity

The standard of the defendant personally, judged by their own abilities

The standard of perfection, allowing for no mistakes of any kind at all

The standard of a leading expert in the field, applied in every single case

Consent (volenti non fit injuria)

Contributory negligence

Necessity

Illegality

To punish the defendant for the wrong they have committed against the claimant

To strip the defendant of any profits that they happened to make by committing the tort

To put the claimant in the position they would have been in had the tort not happened

To deter others in society from committing the same kind of tort in the future

The damage must be a direct consequence of the defendant's breach of duty

The damage must be intended by the defendant at the time of the breach

The damage must be purely financial rather than physical or psychiatric

The damage must be of a reasonably foreseeable type