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What is a duty of care?

What is a duty of care? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A legal obligation imposed on an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others.
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On inspection they were found to be in poor condition and needed to be coppiced under the council's duty of care.
The duty of care owed by correctional officers to take steps to protect the inmates is a reasonable one.
Critics say a common theme has been the failure to exercise a duty of care for its young charges and a failure to crack down on bullying.
They simply adopted the everyday risk formulation and said that a duty of care does not even arise.
The family has now decided to end its 130-year link with the house, and a duty of care will pass to the next purchasers.
The regulations, he said, would place a duty of care on organisers of funfairs and owners of fairground equipment.

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