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.

Dorset v yacht home office. Under the supervision of three officers several Borstal boys who were working on the island where the plaintiffs yacht was moored damages the plaintiffs yacht. Lord Reids test for remoteness. During their escape they crashed into the claimants boat.

Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd. Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd 1970 AC 1004. 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.

Borstal officers were required to supervise young offenders who were working on Brown Sea Island however the officers left the boys unsupervised. Lord Reids test was rejected in Lamb v Camden. This novel question was recently canvassed by the House of Lords in Home Office v.

Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gcst. Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office 1970 Facts. 1004 is a Tort Law case concerning negligence and duty of care.

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. Appeal from Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office CA 1969. During their attempted escape they caused a.

Tort Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd 1970 UKHL 2 1970 AC 1004 is a leading case in English tort lawIt 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 to find a duty of careThe case also addressed the liability of government bodies a persons. 1969 2 QB 412 1969 2 WLR 1008 1969 2 All ER 564 Cited Donoghue or MAlister v Stevenson HL 26-May-1932 Decomposed Snail in Drink Liability The appellant drank from.