Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd UKHL 2, AC 1004 is a leading case in English tort law. It is a House of Lords decision on negligence and marked the start of a rapid expansion in the scope of neglige
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Negligence is a failure to exercise appropriate care expected to be exercised in similar circumstances.
Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office
…Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd [1970] UKHL 2, [1970] AC 1004 is a leading case in English tort law. It is a House of Lords decision on negligence and marked the start of a rapid expansion in the scope of negligence in the United Kingdom by widening the circumstances in which a court was likely…
Negligence can lead to collisions like the Montparnasse derailment at Gare Montparnasse in 1895.