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Q2. One of the leading cases on the duty of care in tort is Caparo Industries plc v. Dickman [1990]. In an essay of not more than 1,000 words, explain the three parts of the Caparo test. In this landmark case on establishing the duty of care, Lord Bridge enunciated a three-part or fold test for establishing the existence of a duty of care between a plaintiff and a defendant. This test has become known as the “Kaparo test”. In this test, for a claim by the claimant against the defendant for…

When you just have a couple of months to live you need do everything in that couple of months that you can do in a lifetime. If I were given only a couple months left, I would address to my entire family to live their life to the fullest. Maria Robinson once said “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending”. The average people live till 78, we may be young and stupid, but we don’t realize how much we take for granted, until it’s taken away from…

An unconscious patient poses many ethical and legal difficulties. As medical students we must use principles from all three 'Tomorrow's Doctor' outcomes to allow us to appropriately care for a patient who is unable to respond to questioning or consent to treatment. There are three outcomes we must pertain too: a doctor as a scientist and scholar, a doctor as a practitioner and a doctor as a professional. Immediately when presented with an unconscious patient the first duty of care is to ensure…

Whilst Scotland is well on its way to tackle hate crime, most policies focus on the perpetrators and the criminal justice response. Twenty five years after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, there are still issues of underreporting, victims that fall between the cracks of current legislation, and lack of support for certain victims (Amnesty International UK, 2017, Kevin Kane, 2017, Nottingham Women’s Centre, 2018). Furthermore, Brexit and the recent terrorist attacks, such as the London Bridge…

Macdonald was one of the Fathers of Confederation that essentially created Canada. John A. Macdonald was born on January 11, 1815, in Glasgow, Scotland. His family migrated to Kingston, Upper Canada, now known as Ontario, Canada in 1820. Throughout his adolescent years, he took interest in law and was well-capable of managing a branch legal office in Naponee by himself at the age of 17…

The popularity of Social Media in today’s society is on the rise, and will only increase as time goes on. Not only is it used as a form of communication between friends, family, and peers; it’s also the force that drives the worlds of advertisement and marketing. Companies big and small rely on social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, to connect with their consumers and discover what products and services are in high demand. The articles “Social networking benefits validated” by Karen…

What is the Current Scottish Legal Aid Policy? Legal aid in Scotland is the responsibility of the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB), an institutional body created by the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (Scottish Legal Aid Board, 2016). The actions of SLAB are consistent and stable but the Scottish government decides the aims of legal aid policy and the Scottish Parliament can implement legislative changes to the policy (Edinburgh & Scottish Legal Aid Board, 2016). The Scottish Legal Aid Board…

immigration were some key issues affecting the society directly. With the Industrial Revolution, people from rural areas started to migrate urbanized industrial cities and that changed the balance of cities such as London, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow. Thanks to their industrial significance, they became the most immigrant-receiving cities. For example, Liverpool was second port of empire. Likewise, London was one of the main centres of factories. In general, most immigrant-receiving cities…

The term social perception is used to describe a phenomenon whereby individual’s perceptions of other members within society are compiled to create a collective opinion, otherwise known as the lay perspective (Zebrowski, 2007). The lay perspective allows social groups to make sense of their individual experiences and structure their lives through rules and regulations that are obtained from this. This essay will discuss the social perception of nursing in today’s society, and factors which…

Cervical spine injuries are caused by a number of things. This includes gunshot wounds, car accidents, diving accidents, landing on the head because of a sports injury, falls from a great height, electric shock and other traumatic injuries (Dahlquist, Fischer, Desai, Rogers, Christmas, Gibbs, & Sing, 2015). There have not been any recent studies on how common spinal injuries are, but according to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (2012), there are approximately 12,000 new cases…