Example sentences of "[noun] a duty " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is conceded , however , that liability may follow some omissions , when there is a relationship between the victim and the defendant imposing on the defendant a duty to act . |
| 2 | It is not necessary for the plaintiff to owe the defendant a duty of care : Although contributory negligence does not depend on a duty of care , it does depend on foreseeability . |
| 3 | In the same case , at 758C , Lord Salmon stated that it was generally well established that professionals owed their clients a duty to exercise reasonable skill and care . |
| 4 | The Bye Law making participation in CPD a duty of membership was passed by council and an SGM and awaited Privy Council approval as the year ended . |
| 5 | By virtue of section 65(2) , that decision imposed on the council a duty to secure that accommodation became available for the occupation of the plaintiff and his family . |
| 6 | If , for example , a hotelier contracts for a window cleaner to clean all the outside windows of the hotel and , while undertaking this job , the person contracted falls and is injured , although the hotelier owes the window cleaner a duty of care under s. 2(1) OLA 1957 , the extent of this duty is modified by the fact that window cleaners will themselves guard against the ordinary risks of carrying out the job and thus the hotelier may not be liable for their injuries . |
| 7 | Consider , for example , an Act of Parliament imposing on parents a duty to maintain their young children . |
| 8 | The defendants owed the deceased a duty of care which they had breached by failing to examine him . |
| 9 | Section 27 of the SGA imposes upon the seller a duty to deliver the goods and upon the buyer to accept the goods in both cases in accordance with the terms of the contract . |
| 10 | In May last year the Court of Appeal upheld a judgment against the friend for more than £5,500 damages for negligence because he had owed the accountant a duty of care . |
| 11 | places a duty on a self-employed person , in prescribed circumstances , to give persons who are not his employees information about such aspects of the way in which he conducts his undertakings as might affect their health or safety . |
| 12 | places a duty on all persons , whether they be employers , employees or self-employed . |
| 13 | the occupier of premises does not owe any such duty to a trespasser : he does not owe to the trespasser a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the trespasser will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is trespassing . |
| 14 | Where a plaintiff claims in respect of the consequences of an injury caused to the foetus before birth , the following questions arise : ( 1 ) How can the defendant have owed the plaintiff a duty of care at a time when the law did not recognise the plaintiff 's existence ? ( 2 ) How can the defendant be liable for causing injury to the plaintiff when , at the time that the injury was caused , the law did not recognise the plaintiff 's existence ? |
| 15 | It is important to note that in order for the defendant to be liable at all , he must owe the plaintiff a duty of care . |
| 16 | But the voluntary assumption by the creditor of the röle of adviser may impose on the creditor a duty to give proper and adequate advice with the risk of liability in damages in the event of a breach . |
| 17 | It was hoped that more would be done by legislation to impose on local authorities a duty to consider , assess and intervene ‘ Where there are elderly people in need of some support or advice in order to prevent or postpone personal or social deterioration or breakdown — necessitating their removal to institutional care ’ ( Age Concern , 1986 , p. 128 ) . |
| 18 | Their powers were accordingly widened by the 1963 Children and Young persons Act , which gave local authorities a duty to prevent and forestall the suffering of children through neglect in their own homes . |
| 19 | Would it be possible to have another look at the last provision that the Minister mentioned , which imposes on local authorities a duty to provide sites for travellers ? |
| 20 | Her Majesty 's Parliamentary Opposition have of course a duty to oppose the Government of the day as part of their constitutional function . |
| 21 | v. Perry , 1987 F.L.R. 237 ; or short of a customer/bank relationship a duty properly to advise which might arise from some other relationship as in Hedley Byrne & Co . |
| 22 | Section 1 of the Transport ( London ) Act 1969 , imposed upon the G.L.C. a duty to develop policies which promoted the provision of integrated , efficient and economic transport facilities for Greater London . |
| 23 | The draught standard they 've put forward states the duty to make a report direct to a regulator does not impose upon auditors a duty to carry out specific work , no specific work , do n't do anything just go along . |
| 24 | His epitaph declared that for him ‘ the study of languages was a necessity , History a relaxation , Philosophy a devotion , Mathematics a delight , Music a duty , Theology a vocation ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ A scheme must , as regards the duties and powers attached to the investigation of complaints under the scheme — ( a ) impose on the adjudicator a duty , subject to the provision made in pursuance of sub-paragraph ( c ) below , to investigate and determine any complaint duly made ; … ( c ) confer power on the adjudicator to advise , mediate or act as conciliator before proceeding further with an investigation ; ( d ) confer power on the adjudicator to extend the scope of his investigation to other matters related to the action complained of ; … |
| 26 | The House of Lords decided that the lorry driver , as Romford 's employee , owed his employer a duty to drive with reasonable care and skill . |
| 27 | 1 Implied duties During employment the employee owes his employer a duty of " fidelity " , alternatively called " good faith " . |
| 28 | Understood in this way a duty to serve the interests of the enterprise can sensibly only mean a duty to further the commercial success of the business . |
| 29 | ( 1 ) Where premises are let under a tenancy which puts on the landlord an obligation to the tenant for the maintenance or repair of the premises , the landlord owes to all persons who might reasonably be expected to be affected by defects in the state of the premises a duty to take such care as is reasonable in all the circumstances to see that they are reasonably safe from personal injury or from damage to their property caused by a relevant defect . |
| 30 | The landlord may also owe the tenant a duty of care as regards the preparation of accurate plans ( see Tromans Commercial Leases ( Sweet & Maxwell 1987 ) p18 ) . |