CLAT UG · Legal Reasoning & Constitutional Law

Law of Torts: Negligence, Defamation and Strict Liability

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Principle: An occupier of premises owes a duty of care to ensure that lawful visitors are reasonably safe.
Facts: Ramesh visits a cinema hall. A freshly mopped slippery marble floor has no war…
Principle: In the rule of Strict Liability (Rylands v. Fletcher), anyone who brings on their land anything likely to do mischief if it escapes is prima facie liable for all natural consequences…
Principle: Defamation requires a false statement published to a third party that lowers the plaintiff's reputation in the eyes of right-thinking members of society.
Facts: In a closed-door one…
Principle: The defense of Volenti non fit injuria (voluntary assumption of risk) applies when a person with full knowledge of the nature and extent of the risk voluntarily agrees to incur it.
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Principle: Under Absolute Liability (M.C. Mehta v. Union of India), an enterprise engaged in a hazardous or inherently dangerous activity owes an absolute and non-delegable duty to the community…
Principle: The maxim Res Ipsa Loquitur (the thing speaks for itself) shifts the burden of proof to the defendant when the accident is of a kind that does not ordinarily occur without negligence…