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Yuen Kun Yeu v Attorney-General of Hong Kong

[1988] AC 175; [1987] 3 WLR 776; [1987] 2 All ER 705 (PC, on appeal from Hong Kong)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtJudicial Committee of the Privy Council (on appeal from the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong)

Year1987

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Foreseeability of harm is necessary but not sufficient to found a duty of care; a duty also requires a relationship of proximity and that it be just and reasonable to impose one, and the two-stage Anns test is not a universal touchstone for the existence of a duty.

Area of Law

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