Following Donoghue v Stevenson there was little development of the duty concept until it was suggested in Dorset Yacht v Home Office that a duty should exist whenever damage was foreseeable.

Dorset yacht v home office. HL held that the borstal officers for whom the Home Office HO was vicariously liable owed a duty to take such care as was reasonable in the circumstances to prevent the boys damaging. Home Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co 1970 AC 1004. The plaintiffs brought an action for damages against the Home Office which was in control of the bostrals on grounds that the officers on the island were negligent as they failed to.

The defendants had failed to prevent the escape an omission. During their attempted escape they caused a. Seven youths from a borstal camp slipped away from their sleeping supervisors in the dead of night while on a training ex-cursion to Brownsea Island.

Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co 1970 AC 1004. Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd 1970 AC 1004 House of Lords Some young offenders were doing some supervised work on Brown Sea Island under the Borstal regime. This novel question was recently canvassed by the House of Lords in Home Office v.

The significance of Home office v dorset yacht Where harm is caused is caused through the acts of a 3rd party in this case it was the three home office officers a duty may also be imposed if there is a special relationship between the maker of the omission and that 3rd party. Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd. The boat owners sued the Home Office alleging negligence by the prison officers.

Ltd 1970 AC 1004. 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. 1004 is a Tort Law case concerning negligence and duty of care.

The bostral boys escaped from the island at night with the plaintiffs yacht and damaged it. VTHE DORSET YACHT COMPANY LIMITED. Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd 1970 UKHL 2 1970 AC 1004 is a leading case in English tort law.