Duty of care: Not responsible?

Crown Office Chambers | Personal Injury Law Journal | November 2019 #180
Rajkiran Barhey reports that in some circumstances the door may be open to claims by children against local authorities if they fail to protect them from third parties ‘The claimants argued that, in purporting to investigate the risk that the neighbours posed and in attempting to monitor the claimants’ situation, the council assumed responsibility for …

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Duty of care: Claims against the police post Robinson and DSD – part one

12 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | November 2018 #170
In part one of a two-part analysis of claims against the police, John-Paul Swoboda examines the decision in Robinson and whether the police are exempt from negligence claims ‘Lord Reed and the other Supreme Court justices recognised that not too high a standard ought to be imposed on the police, but those observations did not …

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Duty of care: It‘s a fair cop

St John’s Chambers (Chambers of Matthew White) | Personal Injury Law Journal | March 2018 #163
Patrick West explores a recent Supreme Court case on police liability ‘Is there a general rule that police are not under any duty of care when discharging their function of investigating and preventing crime?‘ Everyone who has passed through law school will remember the case about the snail in the ginger beer. Poor old Mrs …

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