Introduced a two-stage test.

Dorset yacht v home office two stage test. A party of Borstal trainees were under supervision of three Borstal Officers doing work on an island. Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office. It was found the Home Office owed a duty of care as they.

This test was developed by Lord Wilberforce. Several of the young offenders then stole a boat and crashed it into the yacht of the Claimant. Borstal officers were required to supervise young offenders who were working on Brown Sea Island however the officers left the boys unsupervised.

In this case seven Borstal boys had escaped from an island where they were undergoing training. Through the trilogy of cases in this House Donoghue v Stevenson Hedley Byrne Co Ltd v Heller Partners Ltd and Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd the position has now been reached that in order to establish that a duty of care arises in a particular situation it is not necessary to bring the facts of that situation within those of previous situations in which a duty of care has been held to exist. 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.

HL 6 May 1970. Home Office v Dorset Yacht 1970 AC 1004. Approval in Dorset Yacht Co.

Seven of them escaped and stole a boat which collided with a Yacht owned by the claimant. The officers went to sleep and seven of the boys escaped using a yacht that they found and collided into and damaged the respondents yacht. Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd 1970 UKHL 2 1970 AC 1004 is a leading case in English tort law.

Whether the Home Office or these Borstal Officers. Proposed that a court would only have jurisdiction to determine an action in negligence against a public authority and impliedly. Extensions of the Neighbour Principle Lord Diplock Dorset Yacht v Home Office Extensions of the neighbour principle lord diplock School The Chinese University of Hong Kong.