{"id":261,"date":"2005-12-24T23:15:53","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T23:15:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-24T23:15:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T23:15:53","slug":"badger-v-ministry-of-defence-2005-qbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Badger v Ministry of Defence [2005] QBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Tort \u2013 contributory negligence]<br \/><\/strong> D employed the deceased as a boiler maker. During the course of his employment, he had been exposed to asbestos, which caused him to develop asbestosis he developed lung cancer which eventually killed him. D smoked and so contributed to the negligence that caused his death. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>: D did not take reasonable care for his own safety. Continuing to smoke amounted to contributory negligence which was causative of lung cancer. A reasonably prudent man, warned that there was a substantial risk that smoking would seriously damage his health, would stop smoking. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong>C won damages reduced by 20%<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Tort \u2013 contributory negligence] D employed the deceased as a boiler maker. During the course of his employment, he had been exposed to asbestos, which caused him to develop asbestosis he developed lung cancer which eventually killed him. D smoked and so contributed to the negligence that caused his death. &nbsp; Held: D did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}