Dorset Yacht V Home Office Two Stage Test. 149 and DArcy vPrison Commissioners Times Newspaper 15th November 1955 it wasassumed in the absence of argument to the contrary that the legal custodianof a prisoner detained in a prison owed to the plaintiff another prisonerconfined in the same prison a duty of care to prevent the first prisoner fromassaulting the plaintiff and causing him. Borstal officers were required to supervise young offenders who were working on Brown Sea Island however the officers left the boys unsupervised.
Dry doctrine of a very poor quality obscures the good sense f the con- clusions he claims. Introduced a two-stage test. Dorset Yacht Co Ltd.
Act of the Claimant A subsequent act of the claimant will break the chain of causation if it is very unreasonable.
2 Public policy does not require that there should be immunity from action for bostral officers. The boat owners sued the Home Office alleging negligence by the prison officers. In Home Office v Dorset Yacht Company Ltd5 the neighbour principle had been used to ascertain the existence of the duty of care. In this case seven Borstal boys had escaped from an island where they were undergoing training.
