Curran v Northern Ireland Co-ownership Housing Association Ltd

Subject Matter

NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Local authority — Statutory housing authority's payment of improvement grant — Defective work carried out — Whether authority owing duty of care to subsequent occupiers not to make payment in respect of defective work — Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, arts 47(2)(3), 60(5)

[1987] AC 718; [1987] 2 WLR 1043