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?
Manchester/Meadows concerned the scope of a defendant’s duty of care in the
