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    Grade: A University of London LLB‚ 2nd year Tort Law Question Amber Valley Primary School was closed 6 months ago by Amber Borough Council (ABC)‚ the local education authority‚ which owns all the land and buildings. The school has been standing empty while ABC attempts to find a buyer for the site. Although ABC placed fencing around the site‚ local residents reported that youths had broken into the site on a number of occasions. Last week a group of youths from a nearby young offenders

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    Facebook.com/Thaya PK (Last minute Exam Revision) Tort: Negligence: MEDICAL Prima facie duty owed by the Hospital/Doctor to patient Cassidy v Ministry of Health (Vicariously liable) BREACH via Standard of Care Wilsher v Essex Experience irrelevant as a doctor; trainee or not‚ same standard “Bolam Test” Bolam v Friern Management Hospital Committee Expert opinion/body of professional opinion‚ vice-versa test Level of skill and competency Bolitho v City of hackney Health Authority Applied Bolam

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    Tort Civil or non-criminal wrongful conducts or omissions arising out from non-contractual obligations and causing injuries to another party by providing remedies for the injuries. “Tort”norman-french language –means mischief and wrong Comes from latin- tortus – means crooked‚ wrung and twisted. Sir John Salmon – Tort: a civil wrong for which the remedy is a common law action for unliqudated damages‚ and which is not exclusively the breach of contract or trust or other equitable obligation

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    Adams v Lindsell (1818) The defendant wrote to the claimant offering to sell them some wool and asking for a reply ’in the course of post’. The letter was delayed in the post. On receiving the letter the claimant posted a letter of acceptance the same day. However‚ due to the delay the defendant’s had assumed the claimant was not interested in the wool and sold it on to a third party. The claimant sued for breach of contract. Held: There was a valid contract which came in to existence the moment

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    Task1 What kind of liability do you think Ton should bear in Scenario 1? Contrast liability in tort with contractual liability Contrast liability in tort with contractual liability. There are three differences between liability and contractual liability: A. The difference of base. Contractual liability means that due to the breach of duty‚ contractual collateral obligation of contract or violates the "contract law" provisions of the obligations. Finding out a contractual liability has to be

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    diligence as testified to by its passengers. Inland and Philtranco filed cross-claims against each other. Both respondents moved to submit the case for decision without presenting further evidence. Considering that the documents are admitted‚ there is no necessity of any formal written offer of evidence and‚ therefore‚ after all the foregoing‚ the case shall be deemed submitted for decision upon simultaneous memoranda of the parties and upon submission of complete transcripts. Thereafter‚ the

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    Negligent Tort Deaundra Chatman BUS670: Legal Environment (MFH1446A) Instructor: Leah Westerman Date: January 15‚ 2015 Negligent Tort Manufacturing industries are in the business of making products for the consumer industry‚ products that supposed to be sustainable and have the potential to improve the lives of the people using them. In most cases‚ they get it right; they make a product that does not have any problems when it comes to using it. However‚ in some situations‚ there happens

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    Reading Michalos‚ ‘Douglas v Hello: the final frontier’‚ [2007] Ent. L.R. 241-246 Aplin‚ ‘The development of the action for breach of confidence in a post-HRA era’ [2007] IPQ 19-59 Aplin‚ ‘The relationship between breach of confidence and the "tort of misuse of private information’ [2007] Kings Law Journal 329-336 Aplin‚ ‘Commercial confidences after the Human Rights Act’ [2007] EIPR 411-419 Arnold‚ ‘Confidence in exclusives: Douglas v Hello! in the House of Lords’ [2007] EIPR 339 Arnold‚

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    “The case‚ Reilly v. St. Charles Hospital‚ centered on the birth of Shannon Reilly in 2002. The jury determined that the Long Island hospital and the obstetric nurse had failed to properly monitor the pregnant mother and her fetus‚ missed important signs that the baby was in distress‚ and then failed to take corrective action” (Cohen 2013) What if this happen to you? Is there a fixed price‚ which can make up for the mistakes that were made? I think that there shouldn’t be a cap to the monetary damages

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    I have followed the case in Chicago regarding the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald‚ who was shot 16 times by a police officer. The case happened in Chicago on October 20th ‚2014. The cases are still being investigated However‚ Officer Jason Van Dyke has been charged after the video tape was made public on November 25th‚ 2015. The video was only made public after a freedom of information act request was made. How the request was made; an individual that had knowledge of the tape informed

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