Negligence

Teachers role in the classroom is to take place of the parents whilst in school. They also must take reasonable action to cliff the likelihood of injury to students. (Queensland teachers union, teachers and law 5th edition page 7)

Three elements to establish a negligence case

        A duty of commission was owed

        There was a breach of the duty

        Damages occurred because of the breach

Duty of Care

Two points in outrank to establish a duty of care

        Should a teacher as a reasonable individual project the incident?

        Did he/she take sufficient precautions to prevent the incident?

But first was he/she a legal populate. The law defines a neighbour as someone so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonable to have them in reflectivity as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in oral sex(Lord Atkin often Donoghue vs.



Stevenson 1932)

Two sub-elements to define the neighbour principal:-

        The propinquity requirement

        The foreseeability principle

The propinquity requirement - 1st element of neighbour principal

        Physical propinquity - relates to space and time

        Circumstantial proximity - employer/employee, teacher/student

        Casual proximity - closeness and directness of loss when injury occurred eg mother of boy in car crash, she may not have been in the accident but witnessed the extent of his injuries in hospital and suffered. (Woodgate, Black, Biggs, Owens 2002:303)

Although this is not an approved standard of stating negligence in modern courts with the up-to-date judges it is taken into consideration.

The foreseeability principal - 2nd element of neighbour principal

The court makes judgement on what a reasonable person in the shoes of the defendant should have been able to foresee the result of his/her actions

As new cases arise the neighbour principal expands in who is our...

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