ABSTRACT
The early cases on breach of statutory duty rested on a broad principle that whenever a violation of a statute caused damage to an individual’s interests a right of action in tort arose.
Recent attempts to resurrect broad principle
Lord Denning MR attempted to resurrect the broad principle in Ex p Island Records (1978) when he said that whenever a private right had been interfered with, causing an individual special damage over and above that suffered by the rest of the public, then he would have a civil right of action.
