Bad Oysters – A Government Responsibility?
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McMillan, John
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Each year in Australia many people suffer injury that government is in a position to prevent. By building better roads, imposing tougher safety standards, or carrying out tougher regulation and inspection, government could reduce many of the hazards of contemporary living. But the ideal world comes at a price. Not only would the budgetary outlay be infinite, the spectre of ever-increasing government control and regulation would be invidious to many. Yet those considerations alone cannot absolve government of all responsibility for removing obvious hazards and preventing known dangers. Where is the line to be drawn? Or, more to the point in an age of litigation, when should government be liable to compensate a person who has suffered injury arising from a government failure to act?
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government liability, compensation, duty of care
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