What is duty of care?
Duty of care is the legal responsibility we owe one another to act with reasonable care in the actions we take. It is the general idea that we have a duty to consider the effect that our actions will have on other people. We have a duty to take reasonable steps to ensure that others do not suffer personal, financial or property loss or damage as the result of our actions.
Duty of care is directly related to negligence. If you breach the duty of care, then you have acted negligently because you have failed to behave the way that a reasonable person would under the same circumstances.
Our legal duty of care can be dictated by statutes passed by the legislature, or it can be imposed common law, which is the law that is developed out of court cases.
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