Anns v Merton LBC
Anns v Merton London Borough Council [1978] A.C. 728 was decided in the House of Lords. It established a broad test for determining the existence of a duty of care in the tort of negligence called the Anns test or sometimes retronymically the two-stage test. This case was overruled by Murphy v Brentwood DC (1991).
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Anns v Merton LBC
Anns v Merton London Borough Council [1978] A.C. 728 was decided in the House of Lords. It established a broad test for determining the existence of a duty of care in the tort of negligence called the Anns test or sometimes retronymically the two-stage test. This case was overruled by Murphy v Brentwood DC (1991).
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Anns v Merton London Borough C ...... Murphy v Brentwood DC (1991).
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[1977] 2 All ER 492
[1977] 2 WLR 1024
date decided
1977-05-12
decision by
Lord Wilberforce
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Anns and others v London Borough of Merton
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Anns v Merton London Borough Council
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Established the two-stage Anns ...... should not be a duty of care.
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Judgment for defendant at firs ...... laintiffs were statute barred.
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Anns v Merton London Borough C ...... Murphy v Brentwood DC (1991).
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Anns v Merton LBC
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