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18 February 2009

Mitchell v Glasgow City Council

[2009] UKHL 11, 2009 SC 21, 2009 SLT 247

Human Rights - Right to Life - Local authority duty

Negligence - Duty of care to whom? - Local Authority

Alison Stirling was junior counsel for the pursuers who sought damages from the local council in respect of the death of their husband/father who was killed by the council tenant next door. Baroness Hale of Richmond described the case as "the latest in a long line of cases from Scotland which have played such an important part in shaping the law of negligence for the whole of the United Kingdom"

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldjudgmt/jd090218/mitche-1.htm