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Provide a brief summary of Donoghue v Stevenson's current role in the law of negligence

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 their consum...
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What does it mean that the UK has a common law legal system, and how is this different to a civil law one?

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 are b...
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‘To what extent do policy considerations affect the scope of liability in the intentional torts, and to what extent should they?’

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 MacCorm...
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Discuss the extent to which (if at all) the traditional doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty has been affected by the UK’s membership of the European Union.

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 this...
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Discrimination in the workplace, especially regarding employers' choices when dismissing their employees, is a frequent dispute before Employment Tribunals. With reference to the effectiveness of Equality Act 2010, critically evaluate this statement.

Introduction: Despite the ‘increasingly sophisticated anti-discrimination laws’[1] of the ‘fourth generation’, [2] discrimination in the workplace resiliently persisted. The Equality Act 2010 (EqA) tackled t...
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