Level 1: Recognition · Question 1 of 2
✎ In review — This case summary has not yet been verified by a qualified lawyer and may contain errors. Use it as a study and practice aid only, it is not legal advice and is not a definitive statement of the law. Always check primary sources before relying on it.A learner driver, on one of her first lessons, injures her instructor through a manoeuvre a competent driver would have executed safely. Which principle from Nettleship v Weston [1971] identifies the applicable standard of care? A. The learner is judged by the objective standard of the reasonably competent, qualified driver; her inexperience is no defence.B. The learner is judged by the standard reasonably to be expected of a learner driver of the same limited experience.C. The learner owes no duty of care to the instructor because he consented to the risk of being taught by a beginner.D. The learner is judged subjectively, by the degree of care she was personally capable of exercising as a beginner.