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The history of foreseeability
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The factual component of the duty of care inquiry—that harm to the claimant as a result of the defendant’s conduct was reasonably foreseeable by the defendant—has been entrenched in English law since Donoghue v Stevenson. Both indigenous and comparative (specifically South African) evidence suggests that Lord Atkin’s formulation of the duty of care test was influenced by a particular fragment contained in Title 9.2 of Justinian’s Digest, ‘On the lex Aquilia’. Interrogation of the foreseeabili...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 338.5KB, Terms of use)
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- 10.1093/clp/cuz009
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- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Current Legal Problems More from this journal
- Volume:
- 72
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 287-314
- Publication date:
- 2019-10-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-07-11
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2044-8422
- ISSN:
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0070-1998
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English
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pubs:1031216
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1031216
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2019-07-11
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- Copyright holder:
- Helen Scott
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Laws, University College London. All rights reserved
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuz009
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