Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 20:10:51 +0100

From: Robert Stevens

Subject: Childs v. Desormeaux

Professor Zipursky wrote:

Assume that, among the set of acts that could be causes-in-fact of foreseeable physical injury to others and could be characterized as risk-generation, there is some subset that qualify as sufficient to trigger the default rule of duty. Is hosting a star wars party among these acts? Is being a social host at a party where alcohol is provided by the hosts, in the manner of John's example 2? How about the unicycle case? Richard seems to think that the subset is the whole set, as do the Restatement (Third) drafters. We doubt it.

OK. Why?

Robert Stevens
Barrister
University of Oxford

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