11.   As a professional, an engineer may owe a duty of care to anyone who may reasonably be expected to be affected by his or her professional conduct.

12.   The railway company owes a duty of care to crossing users.

13.   This case supports the view expressed in Baker v Hopkins that a person who places himself in danger may owe a duty of care to a rescuer.

14.   The occupier owed a duty of common humanity to a trespasser known to be present.

15.   When is a duty owed?

16.   His action would be determined by whether a duty was owed.

17.   The court would have to consider whether a duty was owed.

18.   It was held that the defendants owed a duty of care as designers and builders of the flat and were liable under that head.

19.   The said duty is owed if the landlord knows or if he ought in all the circumstances to have known of the relevant defect.

20.   The duty will be owed to the tenant, residents, neighbours and passers-by on the highway.