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reasonable man The fair and reasonable man who represents after all no more than the anthropomorphic conception of justice ...: Davis Contractors Ltd V Fareham UDC [1956] AC 696. It is left ... to the judge to decide what, in the circumstances of the particular case, the reasonable man would have in contemplation, and what, accordingly, the party sought to be made liable ought to have foreseen ... The standard of foresight of the reasonable man...eliminates the personal equation and is independent of the idiosyncrasies of the particular person whose conduct is in question . |