There are two relatively recent Supreme Court cases on the question of liability for omissions in the tort of negligence that I want to focus on. They are first, the combined cases of HXA v Surrey County Council and YXA v Wolverhampton City Council [2023] UKSC 52, [2024] 1 WLR 335, and, secondly, Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police [2024] UKSC 33, [2024] 3 WLR 822. As you will probably know, omissions liability in the tort of negligence has been a problematic area for decades … (more)
Lord Burrows, ‘Omissions in the Tort of Negligence: HXA, YXA and Tindall’. This was a talk given in Oxford on 3 June 2025 at the publication evening for the 14th edition of the Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal.
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