“…Mr Mayall emphasised, by reference to the cases of Reeves v Commissioner of Metropolitan Police [2000] 1 AC 360 and Calvert v William Hill Credit Ltd [2008] EWHC 454 (Ch) (with which I deal in more detail below), that a finding of a duty owed to a person of full understanding to protect him from causing harm to himself was very …”
“…That case, obviously, was concerned with physical harm, personal injury or death, not economic loss. In Calvert v William Hill Credit Ltd [2008] EWHC 454 (Ch) the issue arose whether a bookmaker was under a general duty of care to protect a gambling addict from the consequences of his own compulsive problems. At the …”