Anns v Merton LBC
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Anns v Merton London Borough Council [1977] UKHL 4, [1978] AC 728 was a decision of the House of Lords. It established a broad test for determining the existence of a duty of care in the tort of negligence called the Anns test or sometimes the two-stage test for true third-party negligence. This case was overruled by Murphy v Brentwood DC [1991].
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Anns v Merton LBC
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Anns v Merton London Borough Council
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[1977] 2 All ER 492
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[1977] 2 WLR 1024
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[1978] AC 728
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Anns and others v London Borough of Merton
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Anns v Merton London Borough Council [1977] UKHL 4, [1978] AC 728 was a decision of the House of Lords. It established a broad test for determining the existence of a duty of care in the tort of negligence called the Anns test or sometimes the two-stage test for true third-party negligence. This case was overruled by Murphy v Brentwood DC [1991].
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1977-05-12
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Lord Wilberforce
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5
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Established the two-stage Anns test whether a duty of care existed which requires: a 'sufficient relationship of proximity based upon foreseeability' between plaintiff and defendant; and considerations of reasons that there should not be a duty of care.
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Murphy v Brentwood DC [1991]
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Judgment for defendant at first hearing on the basis that the plaintiffs were statute barred.
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