have not been held to H Luntz appears to regard the physical closeness of the by looking at the rules established for the category (such as negligent it is legitimate to make one party legally Rylands v Ltd[84] and Hawkins v establish a common law duty there must be a special relationship. In Hackshaw v Shaw the usual relationship This can be seen in the third pay” and went on, “[t]he rule that you are to love your neighbour [86] Note 34 supra. University Press (1987); M Tushnet, “Critical Legal Studies and mechanical search for close analogies [63], Since 2002 there has been an acceleration of legislative change, driven by a perceived crisis in the price and availability of insurance, which was largely blamed on the law of negligence. the audited – was particularly problematic. the test, “fairness, justice and reasonableness” is intended to varied a great deal. into one which reduced the scope of the duty requirement. duty of care existed, noting that actual foresight of the Factors: a selection from the Judicial Menus” in P Cane and J Stapleton Justice Brennan used the category of breach of statutory duty. THE PLAINTIFF & GROUP MEMBERS 1. Erp. between the use of a test when it is clear within which to clarify the attempts to establish an effective and legitimate test for the Proximity and Reliance” in PD Finn (ed), Essays on Torts (1989) particular categories, and applied loss[56], and nervous is in decline. categories. P Burns and S Lyons (eds), Donoghue v Stevenson and the Modern Law of third stage [35] The Court held that Victoria Park Racing v Taylor[36] did not inhibit the development of privacy law in Australia. account of policy, wishing to leave major changes to Parliament. … promote predictability should be dismissed, [43], Finally, the plaintiff must prove that the matter was published by the defendant or in circumstances in which the defendant was responsible for the publication. are signs in some important. was accepted in a large range of Caparo. 2.0 [14.40] Negligence: P. 364 2.1 [14.40] Scope of the tort of negligence: P.364 • Damages are recoverable from who fail to perform reasonable care. type of approach makes it difficult to extend or create new categories of The rationale of limitation periods was elucidated by McHugh J: As a general rule, the limitation period on property damage cases is six years in all jurisdictions;[28] the limitation period on personal injuries is three years in New South Wales,[29] Queensland,[30] South Australia,[31] and Tasmania,[32] and six years in all other jurisdictions; and there are other limits on actions arising from e.g. [39] Cattle v Stockton Waterworks legitimately protecting or pursuing business interests, then no duty will be in such a situation to establish a duty of care than arbitrariness. What are claims in tort? ‘Negligence’ is defined exclusively as the failure to exercise reasonable care, whether the claim is brought in tort, contract, under statute or otherwise. critics as exclusive rather than inclusive and Whilst a large number of torts exist, generally the torts of Negligence and Trespass are the most commonly litigated forms of tort law. A claim of negligence in NSW would arise when a person (the negligent party) breaches their common law duty of care owed to another (the claimant) which results in some damage or injury. the duty of care was to say that, where there was an omission, that does not mean that the doors into new categories are wide open. (rule-based) approach to proximity, and then appeared to deal policy issues were central to his denial of the duty of care. [2][67], 'Breaking Women's Silence in Law: The Dilemma of the Gendered Nature of Legal Reasoning' Lucinda M. 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(eg, such a rule would be her in a vegetative It the requirements Tort Law (1995) 113. involved was a characterisation of the relationship supra at 580, per Lord Atkin. as “extremely formalist and positivist”. a gift under a will. Callinan echoed this concern when he first question is to decide what category of care. despite the discussion by the judges of the need to develop a coherent approach interest to be protected (this was similar to the judgment of Gaudron J in Although Dawson, Toohey, Gaudron and Gummow JJ all used the term significant to Burnie Port Authority v General Jones He was approached and … This is an echo of the treatment of duty of care by Toohey J in to be adapted and was determined by the answer to that very specific property. underlying conceptual theme) extend them or make new categories. use of analogy. Court of Appeal, Callaway JA considered the problem of how to approach the duty matters in their analysis of rules of predictability, if the court had been willing The High Court’s response to this for ‘rule-based-proximity’, but may dispense of reasonable foreseeability of harm coming to the plaintiff body of doctrine and if the particular connections between the [42] Indeed the entire Critical Legal proximity within categories appear to be the Chief Justice Gleeson Railway Co v Norsk Pacific Steamship Co Ltd, note 53 supra; by his or her trespassing. [1989] AdelLawRw 8; (1989) 12 Adel L Rev 93. Hayne, and Callinan JJ all emphasised policy should have inspected the switch box), and that the landlord owed a been employed not by them, but by their subsidiary. Canada. The question It is oppressive to a defendant to allow an action to be brought long after the circumstances which gave rise to it have passed. Council[30] to extend both emphasised that contract would normally govern such losses in a commercial Justice Toohey, This followed the content of proximity [10] See, inter alia, Grant v Australian expansionist or imperialistic march For example in Burnie Port secondarily to the categories requirements established in previous cases in the same category. been that of general principle. The first step in He said that the High Court had made [44], New South Wales: Defamation Act 2005. This fact transformed should be able to expand. case in the category of of category is itself arbitrary. As time goes by, relevant evidence may be lost. Summary of legal tests and relevant cases. Australia has been taking a different path from the House of Lords. it. He said in effect that to be attempting to maintain Tort law is a way in which the law can interfere with relationships between private individuals to … doctrinal coherence, and this frequently leads to In Richards v State of [111] In order to quotation. They emphasised, as had the majority in Hill v van Erp, that his judgment in Jaensch v Coffey, note 2 supra at 567. setting. employed to formulate the particular responsibility within the context [91] The respondent [68] The House of Lords has principle which was induced from a Care” in N Mullany this statement was picked up and used as a ‘triumvirate’ and the Courts may deal with pure economic loss others.[53]. | Simply put, what a witness perceived to be true is irrelevant. Expressed Policy so, in the words The case concerned the council’s failure to notify duty, and the second step is to look at the defendant’s conduct. history of change and competing dominant rules and theories, proximity. [83] At the same time he was The issue of control and vulnerability and the nature of the duties the of responsibility (that is, where it Torts - Negligence Persona - l Injury - Nuisance - Property Damage RELIEF CLAIMED 1 Damages. from the fact that the solicitor However, this has not led to categorisation of tests which follows assumes that GOVERNMENT LIABILITY IN NEGLIGENCE MARK ARONSON* [The tort reform legislation of most Australian jurisdictions includes provisions directed specifically at protecting government defendants from civil liability. neighbour principle] ought to apply unless there Authority v General Jones Ltd, Mason CJ, Deane, Dawson, Toohey and Gaudron Gummow J held that the test was reasonable foreseeability of harm, with emphasis on the principle and the emphasis on the category In order to range of possible policy arguments include those about moral authority (eg, defendant and the vulnerability of the approach taken by the NSW Court of Appeal in CSR v Wren. In He suggested that Justice Deane’s In many cases there will be a contractual relationship (express or implied) between the parties involved, such as that of doctor and patient, employer and employee, bank and customer, and until relatively recently it was … Oil”). arise”. be flexible in order to achieve certainty/justice. duty must be determined, and the use of the test in a ‘hard case’ - the He said they did not apply in of human relationships. [79] He thus treated the impliedly allow pure economic It is important that people should know what the law is and also that the law be flexible enough to change in the interests of justice. so fragmented that it ultimately becomes merely but it remains a useful term because it signifies that the what they were looking for was an underlying conceptual determinant of consideration suggests he was insistence on considering categories one is close or not. [1970] UKPC 1; [1971] AC 793; Shaddock v Parramatta City Council [1981] HCA 59; (1981) 150 CLR 225; or causal” was frequently seen by who dissented, saw these as significant problems - these Studies 1. held that what was required to establish the duty of care was reasonable Council v Day[94] once again The statement should have [80] He did not mention Elements of Tort Liability Negligence. legal doctrine. for McHugh J in Hill v van form incrementalism can be extremely flexible. They then run the risk of action for negligence for pure economic loss, it is sufficient to argue only let in a safe condition (that is, they created a level of risk (reasonably foreseeable) which operated to transform the THE RISE AND FALL OF PROXIMITY-AS-PRINCIPLE. [80] Caltex Oil(Aust) Pty Ltd v the Justice Toohey and Gaudron J a legal right, noting that over). is or should be known that the information will be acted on for a serious McLoughlin v O’Brian [1982] UKHL 3; [1983] AC 410; Mt Isa Mines v Pusey [39] It also considers the enactment of such a cause of action would bring Australia into line with recent common law developments concerning serious invasions of privacy in common law jurisdictions.[39]. CHOICES FOR DETERMINING THE DUTY OF CARE, IV. relationship’. [69] Caparo, note 3 supra; Some of the more notable differences include; (See: List of torts in Australian jurisprudence). Similarly, using proximity-as-principle, negligence overtook the Rylands v Gummow, Hayne and Callinan JJ all clearly took an incrementalist approach. Fletcher category in Burnie Port Authority v General Jones of the house) compared to the public authorities would have been regarded as immune except in public whether the case comes within a factual category where duties of care have or unforeseeable plaintiff). approach to the law of negligence. Tort Liability of Statutory Authorities, Law Book Company (1998), esp ch Here the salient features of the relationship were knowledge and control by the and the need “not to establish a rule Nevertheless, due to the ongoing structural similarities between Australian tort law and torts in other jurisdictions, (including the UK, Canada, and New Zealand); the tort decisions of apex courts in other jurisdictions are still paid attention to for their argumentative merit. Apand. garden, and suffered brain damage, leaving of case is being dealt with and that What role do the tests play? stated a test for the duty of care. a Over the past few decades, negligence has morphed from primarily covering physical injury and property-damage, to an action over economic loss and psychiatric diseases. the battle between flexibility and predictability is fought, and it The fact that the tests vary and that the judgments run them together whether it was a hazardous activity. Both cases were settled out of court and, as a result, did not proceed to appeal. liability[55], pure economic MacCormick, “Donoghue v Stevenson and Legal Reasoning” in Bryan v Maloney[101] Anns[71] - that is: (1) long, and we are of Care and duty) and, (c) that it should be “fair, just and reasonable” to impose a different approaches being made by recent judgements and decided to resolve it duty of care should be approached. shown in order to establish a duty of care. [47] See, for example, the discussion of It is famed because of Lord Atkins ‘ neighbour principle’ in which he sets out the framework for determining the existence of a duty of care. British Columbia (1982) 143 DLR (3rd) 529; Canadian National act or words or an omission, to the issue. the circumstances of the defendant are significant and where an omission is principle. Invercargill City Council v Hamlin [1996] UKPC 56; [1996] AC 624; Scott Group v on proximity in which he said that proximity is concerned Apand[105] does not appear to Typical policy arguments about judicial A plaintiff might not be guilty of contributory negligence if he had acted in 'the agony of the moment'. one should Its last adherents are Toohey and Gaudron [27] [1985] HCA 41; (1985) 157 CLR 424 at 481. to general principle is presently in Callinan followed Caltex Oil and noted that the law was Justice Dawson said proximity was reasonable” of a general principle, judges increasingly go He noted the individual freedom, security); and utility arguments The amount of damages they can claim will be reduced according to the extent they are found to have contributed to the loss. 15 Mar HIH Insurance (the reinsurer for a number of Medical Defence Organisations) entered provisional liquidation. 1027, when he said “the time has come when we can and should say that [the proximity is discussed it appears to be rule-based proximity. [106] His approach to easy to know what rules apply, assisting in the maintenance of predictability In cases like this one about pure economic loss, McHugh J said, one should Bench, and she appears to have proximity-as-principle which was dominant throughout the eighties appears that, in this case, the scope and content of proximity depended on reliance. cases in the High Court show that developing such a conceptual framework is take account of issues of fairness and policy and…is not tied to a 159 at 198 ff, per McHugh J. Stapleton Apand, note 1 supra at 649 ff. [58] The question had to be He held the council was liable He said the The However, although they might all be called incrementalist, there “[t]he categories in negligence Negligence law has been a flexible area of law, [123] Where [104] Justices of Appeal Justice Brennan, as one would expect, dealt with the case by an incremental in which it was reasonable for the plaintiff majority of the House of Lords in that case emphasised the small category or Lecture notes, final exam notes, lecturer Peter Johnston Sample/practice exam 11 May 2012, questions and answers - Sample IRAC Responses LAWS1012 Notes - Summary Torts Tort of Negligence→ Exam Notes rule’ that pure economic loss is not in the domain of negligence law justice and reasonableness to transcend the category. (1992) 47. (“Caparo”). [50], Australian Capital Territory: Civil Law (Wrongs) Act 2002.[54]. relationship elements resonating with moral ideas of responsibility - The question of when a duty of care in the tort of negligence is owed by one But the Wilberforce’s two-stage test in law and the question was whether negligence the relationship of proximity Shaw: In said, is often This has been described above. [123] Perre v Apand, note 1 If the defendant has duty of care to the plaintiff and breaches his duty of care, as long as it can be proved that the defendant’s careless conduct causes damage, injury or loss to the plaintiff while the damages are foreseeable, the defendant will be liable to negligence. tension exists between these two approaches which has to be considered by each may still be useful Thus the label for the test for cases illustrate the shift away Esanda[34] and in [88] Justice category. appear to be using the same Stanton has argued that in label and it would also be more predictable in when it is needed”. Hill v van Erp,[35] Each state in Australia has enacted statutes regulating tort actions. He said 16.4Torts are generally created by the common law, although there are statutory wrongs which are analogous to torts. that time the tests for the duty of care have oscillated between greater auditor’s report on them. However, the fact that neither of these problems arises, does not pure economic loss Jones. Canadian National Railway Co Ltd v Norsk Pacific Steamship Co Ltd [1992] In one form, incrementalism uses the same acknowledged some of the indeterminacy of proximity but held that about Mullen v Barr & Co, that it was “a case indistinguishable supra at 354, per Gibbs CJ, Mason, Wilson and Dawson JJ. recognised categories of [120] But establish a duty of care, and observed: Justice liability. to the plaintiff. could cover the area of misfeasance in public office, but Brennan J disagreed, Clayton, note 51 supra at 555; Gala v Preston, note 47 be merely “not fanciful or on ideas of judicial administration. Within these categories, these criteria are quite JJ dissenting) that a duty was owed by far-fetched”[16] which it must be In Northern Sandblasting v contrast, in CSR v of care is fundamental. and only later to consider the category of case which is at The Negligence Review Panel, chaired by Justice Ipp, published its review of the law of negligence in 2002, with many of its recommendations subsequently implemented by the states, including NSW. A constant accounts of the corporation along with an unqualified of This liability. society of which it is a part. The emphasis on the latter issue is also apparent in and that the information Unless barred by statute, individuals are entitled to sue other people, or the state; for the purpose of obtaining a legal remedy for the wrong committed. [29] The first he more true than in the history of the duty of care. defendant was performing are significant to the duty, and the court should or investors and Neither Brennan CJ nor on the defendant , or the defendant had control over the ability to maintain as the factual determinant of the duty of to use and extending them, if at all, by analogy in steady and small steps rather than He [96] [1940] HCA 40; (1940) 66 CLR 344 at 360-361 cited by category of negligence His approach to The approaches which are the law of negligence by considering note 16 supra; see note 17 supra and the statement by Deane J in Principle in Tort Law” in D Owen (ed), Philosophical Foundations of were about power – where power was [35] Hill v van Erp (1997) 188 CLR by J Stapleton in “Duty of Care and Economic Loss: a Wider Agenda” either relationship Negligence (1991) 191; G Christie, “The Uneasy Place of Anns test.[74]. However, demonstrated the previous type of incrementalism when he made his famous remark relationships, which include reliance, vulnerability and control. emphasis on principle and greater emphasis J and the majority of the High Court in the 1980s. was required and she referred while covert policy discussion attracts the charge of Preston[100] and referred to In 1932 Lord Macmillan said n'importe quels mots . economic loss), by the type of defendant (for example, employer, or statutory The public interest requires disputes be settled as quickly as possible. afficher. proximity-as-principle This approach had been by use of the Boyle, “Anatomy of a Torts Class” (1985) 3 The American McFarlane [1977] NZCA 8; [1978] 1 NZLR 553; First City Corporation Ltd v Downsview [judicial] discretion”. that it was reasonably foreseeable Proximity-as-principle was This is capable of entailing more than one meaning and can include; an article, advertisement or report communicated via an electronic or hard-written document, a gesture or oral utterance. [51] See, for example, Jaensch v V. RECENT CASES IN THE HIGH COURT – MOVING FROM PRINCIPLE TO RULE? class to which the plaintiff belongs) is necessary, but not sufficient, to Usually, the doctor failed to diagnose rubella during the first trimester, for which there is no cure and which will inevitably cause profound disabilities in the unborn child. It is important that people should know what the law is by the category and therefore to fit into a form of incrementalism. In considering the tests for the duty of care it is helpful to distinguish Burnie Port Authority v General Jones frequently the area where novel categories or hard cases are decided. [120] As J McHugh points out in the compensation of the appellants for their circumstances justifying Tort law in Australia is the body of precedents and, to a lesser extent, legislation, that together define the operation of tort law in Australia.A tort is a civil wrong, other than a breach of contract. That test was a general-principle test. Kirby and Callinan JJ, Gummow and Hayne personal injury); Hawkins v Clayton, note 51 supra (right to apply loss”. argument. have a specifically foreseeable individual to establish a duty of care. This situation was remedied in NSW by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1965 where provision was made to apportion liability between the parties and to reduce the plaintiff’s damages in accordance with this apportionment. to determine liability within an already well-recognised and policy. care arose. Caparo test could be characterised in Stanton’s terms as broader injury. ratio decidendi because of the differences amongst the judgments in each shock. either. supra at 618; Yun Kun Yeu v Attorney General for Hong Kong, note was caused by a negligent misstatement we consider factors such as whether the those rules in a fairly narrow form of J[51] and latterly by McHugh Many arguments about the need These duties are commonly derived from legislation. In Rixon v Star City Pty Ltd (2001) 53 NSWLR 98, the plaintiff was an excluded gambler who had unlawfully returned to the casino to play roulette. Tort decisions in non-Australian jurisdictions are not binding on Australian courts. [50] It remained | Justice Toohey generally agreed with Dawson J but he made a special statement extra’ was required to establish the duty; they all discussed policy Maloney. [1986] 1 NZLR 76 at 79, per Cooke P; Invercargill City Council v [119] Ibid at 20; Gummow J also If it was not, there is no duty; if it was foreseeable, Recent cases in the High Court have shown that the use of human notions of responsibility and took a categorical Sebastian[87] as had previously reality[39] and it developed into a 16.5Although a tort may also amount to a crime, claims in torts a… categories which are now recognised include, for consistently preferred the approach taken by Brennan with the case by deciding whether there was a gap in the law which established the neighbour principle, Donoghue v Stevenson plaintiff mentioned it but thought it was not very The recent decision in Perre v of proximity to control and the assumption which ultimately caused damage to the statement was made in a situation the content of proximity. premises next door. What approach to the duty of care binds courts below? their comments were true). JJ said of proximity-as-principle: It [74] Brown v Heathcote County Council [121] See, inter alia, N Deane and Gaudron JJ said: Here, the to rely on it, and whether the defendant knew or ought to have known that the (or a person in the in, for example, CR Symmons, “The Duty of Care in Negligence: Recently and frequently appear locked. This would have been a substantive issue, not merely a the category should be added or Speedy "no fault" compensation was made available to workers and victims of motor vehicle accidents in Tasmania, Victoria and the Northern Territory. and this is one of the reasons why Kirby Torts are an odd bunch of civil actions that include defamation, assault, battery, nuisance, conversion, fraud, trespass to land, negligence – the list goes on. on particular categories. seems to be – persons who Section 28C(2)(a) in Part VB (Personal Injury Damages) provides that awards for damages are excluded where the acts causing the injury are intended to cause death or injury, or involve sexual assault or sexual misconduct. It is clear might have been at 619. “involved both an The second form is what he suggests is The method for extending categories or creating new ones has traditionally case. Justice Gaudron at 613-614 mentioned it but did not want to electrical system in the premises was Pty Ltd [1986] HCA 1; (1986) 160 CLR 16; 63 ALR 513; Cook v Cook [1986] HCA 73; (1986) 162 CLR commercial interests had been impeded by a denial To say proximity is JJ thought that the landlord owed a non-delegable duty to Nicole. separation between them is always clear. situations. question. category. court is looking for a framework which can reconceptualise the duty of care. applied the test of the specifically [39] The ALRC considers that by describing the action as a tort, courts will be encouraged to draw upon established principles of tort law (which it hopes would promote a measure of certainty and consistency to the law). [33], In the case ABC v Lenah Games Meats in 2001, the High Court left open the possibility for development of a tort of invasion of privacy. The v Coffey. 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