Whether the Police Service of Northern Ireland owed a duty of care to the appellant, a social worker employed in a children’s home run by a religious order, when informing the appellant’s employers that following an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse, he was not, in the police view, a fit person to continue to be employed as a social worker in the home. More particularly the question is whether the trial judge Gillen J was correct in law to accede to the respondents’ application for a direction at the close of the appellant’s case on the basis that the respondents owed the appellant no duty of care when making the impugned statement.
Judges:
Girvan LJ , Coghlin LJ and Sir John Sheil
Citations:
[2010] NICA 17
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Jurisdiction:
Northern Ireland
Police, Negligence
Updated: 15 August 2022; Ref: scu.416621