Cause Of Negligence

Negligence is careless and unresponsible behaviour. It arise when one person (defendant) could avoid some damages or financial loss, but did not suceed at foreseeing it while acting. As a result, another person was caused and affected by some sort of damage. However, that damage was not made intentionally, but still it was caused by the defendant, as he or she could prevent the damage made to another person by taking reasonable care. Sometimes such an unpleasant situation may be solved by a simple «sorry», althought a victim of the negligent behaviour may also sue a careless person and will make a defendant pay an injury costs. So if the case with the negligence goes further to the court and claimant wants to sue defendant, it will be neccessary …show more content…
A mother can be not attentive enough and her baby can fall form the swing. Grandmother might forget to tell everyone that the floor is slippery after mopping it so somebody can fall down. And of course, nobody will sue mother or grandmother. But the most dangerous acts of negligence with the most hard consequences is the professional negligence. Whatever is the job, if there is communication with customers, there is always a chance to be claimed for professional negligence. A lawyer which did not hear about the updates in the legislation of the United Kingdom, will advice a customer to sign an important contract and accept all conditions, when it became illegal after the updates. That may cause an impressive economic loss. It is not the duty of care of the lawyer to prevent economic loss of the customer’s company, however it is lawyer’s duty to keep his knowledge up-to-date to prevent any illegal action made by a customer. So in the case if the financial loss was caused by the unresponsible lawyer, which breached his duty of care by not reading the new updates in the legislation of the United Kingdom and then giving an advice, based on out of date knowledge, a customer can claim that a lawyer owed him a duty of care and the level of the damage will be defined on order to pay for the financial loss caused by the negligent actions of the …show more content…
All three steps mentioned before should be completed. First of all it is necessary to prove that the surveyor owed a duty of care. It is important to look at surveyor’s contract, agreement and work updates in order to see what does his duty require to do. It might be a surveyor’s fault if a valuation of the property was made inappropriately; the defects of the property were not identified, there was not further actions made and nobody was informed after pointing out the problem etc. The breach of duty of care can vary, however it is almost always leading to a financial loss. Such a mistakes are very expensive to resolve, that is why there are a lot of issues in the court when the surveyors are being claimed. Finally, the last step is to prove that the breach of the duty has caused some sort of damage, e.g. financial loss to see if there is anything that can be recovered to the