Their claim is statutory in nature. They are alleging that a class of person (a fiction) engaged in an act it was not permitted to do or omitted to do somthing it was otherwise required to do based upon the rights and duties conferred upon it by Her Majesty. Their claim is not grounded in the common law and directed at the living man/woman for injuring another party.
Printed copy · Anthology Volume 4, page 473 · cut by a page breakPrinted copy from The Tender For Law Anthology, Volume 4, page 473 (printed 13 June 2014). Added by this site; not part of the Facebook export. A page break in the printout cut off the end of this comment.