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Negligence is ‘asking’ where a duty of care, as opposed to liability, exists. In Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562, Lord Atkin established that a duty of care existed between a manufacturer and ...

A common law system of laws, as used in the UK, predominantly develops through decisions made by judges in courts in the UK. This creates a body of binding laws based on precedent, whereby lower courts ar...

The Common Law finds itself in a constant battle between using policy-based or principle-based considerations when shaping the scope of liability in intentional torts. On one hand, policy, which Neil MacC...

Parliamentary sovereignty is one of the fundamental principles of the British Constitution, which underpins the legal system and gives the Parliament power to legislate on any matter. Dicey encapsulated t...

Introduction:Despite the ‘increasingly sophisticated anti-discrimination laws’[1] of the ‘fourth generation’,[2] discrimination in the workplace resiliently persisted. The E...