Home Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co 1970 AC 1004 1027D1030E only.

Dorset yacht co 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 Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd 1970Some young offenders were doing some supervised work on Brown Sea Island under the Borstal regime. 3 Borstal boys were left unsupervised and damaged a boat.

C sued the Home Office which employed the borstal officers. Appeal from Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office HL 6-May-1970 1970 AC 1004 1970 2 WLR 1140 1970 2 All ER 94 1970 UKHL 2 A yacht was damaged by boys who had escaped from the supervision of prison officers in a nearby Borstal institution. The owner sued the home office for negligence.

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. 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. Lord Reids test was rejected in Lamb v Camden.

The case is also relevant because. Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office 1970 Facts. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co.

During their escape they crashed into the claimants boat. Lord Reids test for remoteness. The bostral boys escaped from the island at night with the plaintiffs yacht and damaged it.

149 and DArcy vPrison Commissioners Times Newspaper 15th November 1955 it wasassumed in the absence of argument to the contrary that the legal custodianof a prisoner detained in a prison owed to the plaintiff another prisonerconfined in the same prison a duty of care to prevent the first prisoner fromassaulting the plaintiff and causing him physical injuries. Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co 1970 AC 1004 Lord Reid remarked Hedley Byrne Co Ltd v Heller Partners Ltd-Wikipedia So for example where the defendant has control over the third party or where the third party is faced with a dilemma created by the defendant the chain of causation is unlikely to be broken and the defendant will normally be liable to the claimant for the damage caused. The boat owners sued the Home Office alleging negligence by the prison officers.