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Non-Delegable Duties: Where next after Woodland?
Philip Turton assesses the effects of the recent clarifications in non-delegable duty case law ‘In the time since Woodland, lawyers have already started looking to other classes of vulnerable persons who might also be protected by such a duty.’ Liability which is imposed without fault is at odds with most cases encountered day to day …
Cases Referenced
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- JB and BB v Leicestershire County Council (2014) unreported, Nottingham County Court, 6 June
- Leichhardt Municipal Council v Montgomery [2007] HCA 6
- NA v Nottinghamshire County Council [2014] EWHC 4005 (QB); [2015] EWCA Civ 1139
- Pickard v Smith (1861) 10 CB (NS) 470
- Rylands v Fletcher [1868] UKHL 1
- Wilson & Clyde Coal v English [1937] UKHL 2
- Woodland v Swimming Teachers Association [2014] AC 537