Learnt something shocking at a course today. It seems that the law of negligence is based on the principle of first proving a duty of care. Thus, if I am in a park and a toddler comes hurtling out of the bush, heading straight for the pond and I watch them fall in and drown without doing anything I have NOT committed a crime<\/em>. If on the other hand I am the kids nanny that is a different matter.<\/p>\n We shouldnt really need laws to tell us this, but in my book that is all wrong. It should be a basic part of human behaviour to act for the good of others. An ommission is as bad as a commission when that ommission can reasonably be expected to cause serious consequences.<\/p>\n This is the problem with a \u2018rights\u2019 based legal system. Surely we all have the RESPONSIBILITY to be good neighbours to one another, and this comes before any \u2018rights\u2019 we might claim.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Learnt something shocking at a course today. It seems that the law of negligence is based on the principle of first proving a duty of care. Thus, if I am in a park and a toddler comes hurtling out of the bush, heading straight for the pond and I watch them fall in and drown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"\n