I need to show the evolution of negligence?

Question

can you send out as many landmark negligence cases as possible?

i needed to show in great detail the evolution of negligence.

Answer 1

At common law, for duty of care, look at Donoghue v Stevenson. This established a formula for determining in what circumstances a duty of care will arise. Previously, certain relationships dictated what gave rise to a negligence action; now it is dependant on the test of reasonable foreseeability for the duty of care element (see above).

Also look at Wagon Mound (no 1). Previously, the formula of determining the remoteness stage of negligence (I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you have a basic understanding of the structure of a negligence action) was simply by establishing a causal link b/w the defendant's act or omission and the harm so caused. As such, it was replaced by the legal principles in the above case, whereby the test for scope of liability now depends on whether the harm incurred was of a type or kind that was reasonably foreseeable.

Answer 2

Since I'm not sure what country you're in, it's a little hard, but for the development of common law negligence, cases don't come much bigger than the British case Donaghue v. Stevenson (1932), commonly referred to as the "snail in the bottle case".  In Australia at least the case that established a duty of care to special cases is Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills (don't remember the year).