Yup, agree with pretty well everything you say Bealzebub. In my days in charter they would have been left behind too! Just wondered in todays rather more PC world how it might apply, twenty five years on, glad to see that the UK hasn't gone completely mad.
Down here in Oz 'duty of care' has seen some very odd judgements and division of property!
As a Mod I was just offering up another angle to an interesting discussion, not any sort of opinion, nothing more sinister than that! Well within the remit of a mod on a civilised forum such as this
(Since you chose to draw attention to it!).