Law of Negligence: Duty of Care, Standard of Care, and the Notion of Personal Responsibility

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10.2991/msmi-16.2016.1How to use a DOI?

Keywords

duty of care; standard of care; the notion of personal responsibility

Abstract

This essay's main body divides into two parts. After a brief background of the historical development of the law of negligence, the first part is to demonstrate the principles of Duty of Care and the Standard of Care, including duty of care for negligent acts and the guidelines of breaching the standard of care. Then it will analyze the special duty of care within parent and child from three aspects. Finally the essay will provide a conclusion to summarize all the information above and give a clearly understand of duty of care for negligence.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Qiang He
AU  - Jia-Ling Feng
AU  - Wan-Yun Huang
PY  - 2016/08
DA  - 2016/08
TI  - Law of Negligence: Duty of Care, Standard of Care, and the Notion of Personal Responsibility
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management Science and Management Innovation
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