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Civil Law (Wrongs) Act 2002
42Standard of care
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42 Standard of care
For deciding whether a person (the defendant) was negligent, the
standard of care required of the defendant is that of a reasonable
person in the defendant’s position who was in possession of all the
information that the defendant either had, or ought reasonably to have
had, at the time of the incident out of which the harm arose.