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{{a|tort|{{subtable|{{image|Clapham Omnibus|png|While out punting, Mrs. Potts meets the man on the Clapham Omnibus. {{vsr|1956}}}}
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“Even a serious lapse is not likely to be enough to engage the concept of [[gross negligence]]. One is moving beyond bad mistakes to mistakes which have a very serious and often a shocking or startling (cf. “jawdropping”) quality to them.”
“Even a serious lapse is not likely to be enough to engage the concept of [[gross negligence]]. One is moving beyond bad mistakes to mistakes which have a very serious and often a shocking or startling (cf. “jawdropping”) quality to them.”