“…cluding a danger of injury resulting from human agency, as in the Dorset Yacht case [1970] AC roo4 and Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands v Hartwell[2004] 1 WLR 1273. Applying the same principles, however, the police are not normally under a duty of care to protect individuals from a danger of injury which they have not the…”
“…ts) who has itself created the source of danger. One example of this exception given by Lord Hope was Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands v Hartwell [2004] 1 WLR 1273 in which the police authorities had entrusted a gun to an officer who was still on probation and had shown signs of instability and unreliability.…”
“… EWCA Civ 1141; Tomlinson v Congleton Borough Council [2003] UKHL 47, [2004] 1 AC 46; Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands v Hartwell [2004] UKPC 12, [2004] 1 WLR 1273; Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13, [2008] 1 AC 884; Spencer v Wincanton Holdings Limited [2009] EWCA Civ 1404 and Debell v Rochester Cathedral [2016] EWC…”