Running head: Law, Tort Law, Criminal Law, Contracts, and Civil Procedure | | | Law, Tort Law, Criminal Law, Contracts, and Civil Procedure In defining the term law, tort law, criminal law, contract and the sources from which law derives, I will use a case that took place in 1929 “Donoghue v Stevenson” to demonstrate the these laws which will show a successful negligence suit, as well as defenses a defendant presenting evidence to refute a plaintiffs
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1.The duty, this element requires plaintiff to act like an ordinary careful person. 2.Breach of Duty, which comes after establishing standard of care; hotel was negligence, the hotel should have protected its gusts, and it should have monitored the elevators from any strangers. 3.Causation, this element comes after the establishment of the breach of duty. This element often used to determine the causes of an accident. The “but for” test which determines the defendant action or absence of action
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therapy, relevant level of care, negligence, lawsuits and other criteria (Knaak & Parzeller, 2014). Expectations are high when it comes to modern medical treatment. There can be many arising complications associated with potential malpractice. Such complications are unavoidable and can definitely lead to expensive and timely lawsuits. From a patient’s perspective, malpractice is solely in hands of the physician’s liability. There is an established principle of ‘duty to care’ by Donoghue v Stevenson
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Chapter 8—Negligence and Strict Liability TRUE/FALSE 1. A blind person will be held to the standard of care of the reasonable blind person rather than that of the reasonable sighted person for purposes of determining negligence. ANS: T MSC: AACSB Analytic 2. In applying the reasonable person standard, the court takes into account a person's physical, but not mental handicaps. ANS: T MSC: AACSB Analytic 3. A "reasonable person standard" does not apply to children since they
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Chief Officer of a non-profit community hospital was out of the country on vacation. A majority of the staff could not make it in for their shifts. Patient units were understaffed and the day shift personnel were forced to work overtime. The nurse on duty left to get dinner. As a result, several injuries from falls out of beds and a death from wrongful medication occurred. There are multiple issues in question in this scenario. The objective of this paper is to identify the legal, ethical and professional
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8. 9. The issue of whether a duty of care is owed by the defendant is determined by using the ‘neighbour test’ from Donoghue v Stevenson where Lord Atkin held that ‘one must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour’. After this there is the Caparo test set out in Caparo Industries plc v Dickman, it laid down these questions: * Was damage or harm foreseeable? * Is there sufficient proximity between the Defendant
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professing special skills. Any man practicing a profession requires particular level of learning, which impliedly assures a person dealing with him, that he possesses such requisite knowledge, expertise and will profess his skill with reasonable degree of care and caution. It should be taken in to consideration that the professional should command the “corpus of knowledge” of his profession. Since long the medical profession is highly respected, but today a decline in the standard of the medical profession
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**One example from the text of a case that relates to commercial host liability and duty of care is Jordan House v Menow. This case was about an individual named Menow who was a frequent guest at the hotel and had a tendency to drink too much and act recklessly. A year before the incident occurred he had been banned from the hotel for annoying the other guests and he was only allowed in the hotel with a reasonable person. The night of the incident, Menow entered the hotel with his employer and foreman
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Scenario 1 Consider in light of legal requirements and nursing professional requirements, the issue below. Peter is a 30 old man with a 10 year history of bipolar affective disorder. His history shows that during depressive stages he frequently becomes suicidal and has in fact made several attempts to take his life over the last 7 years. He lives at home with his elderly and frail mother. She finds his illness and non compliance with medications very difficult. His mother calls you to tell
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In today’s health care, there are laws set in place to protect the well-being and best interest of the patient. These laws range from tort laws, criminal laws, and contract laws. Although each of these laws are set in place to protect the patient to a certain degree of wrongdoing on the physicians and medical facilities part, they can be distinguished by which one affects health care professionals directly compared to indirectly. In this paper, I will discuss the Tort Law, the law that most directly
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