Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:26:40

From: Jason Neyers

Subject: UK Compensation Bill Published

Dear Robert and others:

I am sure that I am probably wrong but I was under the impression that under English law the social utility argument was technically only valid in situations of government services (e.g., Denning in Hertfordshire). So it would be the law in the case you cited which I am assuming was a government services cases but it is not a general common law principle that social utility is relevant in all negligence cases (though it might be a subliminal undercurrent in many cases). That is, as I understand it, generally the Canadian law on the subject.

Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Stevens
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2005 11:12 am
Subject: Re: [Fwd: ODG: UK Compensation Bill Published]

Whatever the normative attractions of this position, it is not the common law.

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