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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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Lorimer believes the players' clubs have a duty of care to their young charges.
The Supreme Court found that there was a duty of care owed by all but one of the particular defendants.
They simply adopted the everyday risk formulation and said that a duty of care does not even arise.
He says there is a difficult and intricate question about whether there was a duty of care in law.
The respondent owed the appellant only the ordinary general duty of care owed by an occupier to a lawful entrant.
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.

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