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Chapter 4: Duty III – Pure Economic Loss

Chapter 4: Duty III – Pure Economic Loss

pp. 167-214

Authors

Rachael Mulheron, Queen Mary University of London
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Summary

Liability for negligently-inflicted financial losses is both complex and challenging. This is due, in part, to the reluctance of English appellate courts to settle upon any one test by which to establish whether D owed C a duty of care to avoid the pure economic loss which C suffered.

Keywords

  • negligent misstatement
  • Hedley Byrne liability
  • negligent services
  • disappointed beneficiaries
  • pure relational economic loss
  • Spartan Steel immunity

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