A Sense Of Loss

摘要

The question of whether one party owes a duty of care to another, and to what extent, is important on projects that abound in mutually dependent relationships. When is, say, a consultant liable to a contractor it has no contract with and owes no duty to under another contract by way of the third-party rights act?rnMuch ink has been spilled on these pages in recent years over the confused law about when a duty of care is owed for pure economic loss.rnIn simple terms, this area of law usually comes into play when one party wants compensation for a loss caused by another with which it does not have a contract.rnThe question, then, is whether one party had a non-contractual duty to behave carefully so as to avoid causing the other a loss.