Negligence Case Summary

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Introduction
Negligence is a failure to take reasonable care to avoid causing injury or loss to another person (Law Hand Boo, 2013). Negligence can be used when a party has experienced loss or damage from the wrongful actions or omission to act of another individual. This principal can be found in The Civil Liability Act 2003(Qld). The following report will examine the tort of negligence
While analyzing the case study of Mr. Jones vs blue board production and will provide an evaluation to negligence

Describing/explaining
In order for the plaintiff to receive compensation, he or she must first successfully prove if there was a duty of care owed. This can be determined by the legal neighbor principal which applies to individuals …show more content…

“a breach occurs when the defendant has not taken steps that a reasonable person would have taken in the circumstances in order to prevent pain or harm falling upon the plaintiff” (Herlihy, 2004, p. 291). “in order for the court to be satisfied that a duty of care has been breached, it looks at what standard of care should have been exercised by the defendant in the circumstances of the case” (Herlihy, 2004, p. 293).
The standard of care differs from case to case as the courts must determine if the standard of care was high or low in the appropriate circumstance. The court possesses these questions in order to identify the standard of care: magnitude of the risk of injury, seriousness of the possible, characteristics of the plaintiff, how beneficial the actions was to society, how practical it was to take precautions, precedent cases, whether the defendant's behavior is consistent with usual behavior, whether there is any relevant act of parliament that regulates the defendant’s behavior. In the following case, the standard of care would be considered high due to the magnitude of risk; how practical it was to take precaution and seriousness of the …show more content…

By doing so the defendant can decrease or escape any liability. There are three defenses a defendant can use when they are found liable for negligence. These defenses are contributory negligence, where the plaintiff may have contributed to their own negligence by being careless, this can be used as a partial or complete defense; volenti, where the plaintiff had assumed the risk that caused the injury though to prove this the defendant must be able to demonstrate “that the plaintiff voluntarily consented the, and accepted that there was a degree of danger in the activity in which they were participating” (Dosen, 2013, p. 77). And the final defense is that of illegality, where damage/injury occurs while doing an illegal act. Illegality is not so much a defense as it rumors the duty of care and with no duty of care, there cannot be a breach and therefore negligence. In the case, the defendant has no

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