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Negligence after Meadows & Manchester

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23 September 2022 / Wendy Laws
Issue: 7995 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Personal injury , Professional negligence
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Dr Wendy Laws provides an invaluable guide to interpreting negligence cases
  • The Supreme Court in Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK and Meadows v Khan set down six framework questions for analysing claims in negligence.
  • Do those questions represent a novel freestanding framework, or can they be integrated with a more conventional approach, to form a coherent overall structure for the analysis of claims in negligence?

In this article I ask how we should understand the structure of a claim in negligence after the decisions in: Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2021] UKSC 20, [2021] UKSC 20, [2021] 4 All ER 1 and Meadows v Khan [2021] UKSC 21, [2021] 4 All ER 65.

The Supreme Court set down six framework questions for analysing claims in negligence—but do those questions represent a novel freestanding framework, or can they be integrated with a more conventional approach to form a coherent overall structure for the analysis of claims in negligence?

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