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Extreme sports and kids... 21-May-2015 At 9:57:08 PM patto

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On 21/05/2015 Wendy wrote:
>I know all about negligence and duty of care.
Your very next sentence contradicts this assertion.

>What I am suggesting is that if we start applying legal duty of care to a whole
>bunch of non professional activities, we are going to end up one a very slippery
>slope to not ever doing anything.
A "legal duty of care" already exists to a "whole bunch of non professional activities". This is not a new thing.

One of the most common situations where people often are negligent and breach their duty of care to complete strangers is in a car accident.

On 21/05/2015 Wendy wrote:
>People do need to take some responsibility for themselves otherwise we
>will all just have to do origami.
How is a novice climber in a position to take responsibility for themselves on the cliff-face? They have put their trust in the "expert" mate. If that mate is negligent then they can very much be held liable.