| 单词 | Reasonable skill and diligence |
| 释义 | 合理技巧和努力 A fair, proper and due degree of care and ability as might be expected from an ordinarily prudent person with the same knowledge and experience as the defendant engaging in the defendant’s particular conduct or omission and under the particular circumstances: Knight v Home Office [1990] 3 All ER 237. Reasonable skill and diligence is not a low or high level of skill and diligence, but rather that level of skill and care which is appropriate in the circumstances: Yue Xiu Finance Co Ltd v Agnew [1996] 2 HKC 122 (CA). A defendant must exercise such skill and diligence as a reasonable person under similar circumstances would employ to avoid acts or omissions which he or she reasonably foresees are likely to cause injury to others: Thomsen & Anor v Johnson Burglar Alarms Co Ltd [2001] 4 HKC 666. A person who fails to exercise reasonable skill and diligence may be guilty of negligence: Gill v Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Rly Co (1873) LR 8 QB 186. The onus of proving negligence rests on the plaintiff. See also Reasonable man. 可由一般與被告有相同認知和經驗的謹慎的人，在被告於個別情況下及作出的個別行為或不作為中，所期望的小心和努力的公平、恰當及適當的程度：Knight v Home Office [1990] 3 All ER 237。合理技巧和努力並非技巧和努力的高低水平，而是在個別情況下適當的技巧和努力的水平：Yue Xiu Finance Co Ltd v Dermot Agnew （HCA 3959/95,未經彙報）。被告必須作出此合理技巧和努力，正如合理之人在類似的情況下會作出以避免他可合理地預見相當可能引致他人損害的作為或不作為：Thomsen & Anor v Johnson Burglar Alarms Co Ltd [2001] 4 HKC 666。未能作出合理技巧和努力的人可能有疏忽罪： Gill v Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Rly Co (1873) LR 8 QB 186。原告有責任證明疏忽的責任。另見 Reasonable man。 |
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