Nature of non-delegable duty of care

Woodland v Swimming Teachers Association and others [2011] EWHC 2631 (QB), SC TLR 1 November; NLJ 1 November; LSG 28 October

The essential feature of a duty of reasonable care which a defendant cannot delegate to a third party is that the defendant had control over a vulnerable claimant for the purpose of performing a function for which the defendant had assumed responsibility.