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The basic principle of the rule of law was defined in Entick v Carrington and it is the idea that all government action must be based upon law. One aspect of this is to ensure the law applies equally to all ...

For a contract to be valid there needs to be both offer and acceptance. Therefore, a contract cannot be enforced unless it is accepted. The postal rule states that an offer is deemed to be accepted from the ...

There exists long standing judicial support for the factual test of causation in the law of tort. For example, in Barnett (1969) the court held that a doctor would not be liable despite negligent treatment, ...

A common law system is the term used to denote the type of legal tradition we have in the UK. The term also describes what our sources of law are. Other areas of the world - such as European countries - have...

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...