Explain, using examples, the meaning of the term duty of care.

INTRO

• Duty to take reasonable care when it may affect other people
• Donoghue v Stephenson
  • First case to mention DoC
  • A snail had been found in a bottle of ginger beer
  • Mrs Donoghue had been ill as a result
• Neighbour Principle
  • Lord Atkin
  • "persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation"
• Caparo v Dickman 
  • 3 part caparo test

REASONABLE FORESEEABLE

• Reasonable man
  • "the man on the clapham omnibus"
• Jolley v Sutton
  • 14 year old boy fell off of an abandoned boat
  • Had been playing on it and trying to…