This decision turned, essentially, on considerations of policy in relation to the role of a classification society in the context of the complex arrangements for sharing, limiting and insuring the risks inherent in carriage of goods by sea. The ordinary test of reasonable skill and care is the correct one to apply. Watson v British Boxing Board of Control - WikiMili.com Chris Eubank and Michael Watson's horror fight, negligence and terrible It much have been in the contemplation of the architect that builders would go on the site as the whole object of the work was to erect building there. The most obvious category of case of a duty of care to administer medical treatment to restrict the consequences of injury or illness, or to effect a cure, is that of the duty owed by a doctor or a hospital authority to a patient. A defendant seeking to disturb the findings of fact of a trial Judge in relation to causation undertakes a hard task. Without it, the system of personal injury compensation would not have survived. In his Witness Statement Mr John Morris, General Secretary of the Board said "The Board believes as I do, that the safety of the boxers is of great importance and takes precedence over commercial and other interests". Next Mr Walker argued that the Board did not create the danger of injury or the need for medical assistance. 67. In particular, the Board controlled the medical assistance that would be provided. Once you create your profile, you will be able to: Claim the judgments where you have appeared by linking them directly to your profile and maintain a record of your body of work. Michael Alexander Watson v British Boxing Board of Control Ltd, World Treatment that should have been provided at the ringside. said: "In my opinion authorities who run a hospital, be they local authorities, government boards, or any other corporation, are in law under the selfsame duty as the humblest doctor. "There is always a risk, and the pool from which professional boxers tend to be recruited is unlikely to be one with an innate or well-informed concern about safety, and one may ask why should the individual boxer not rely on the Board's arrangements?
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