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TOWARDS A NEIGHBOURHOOD ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGIME: AN APPRAISAL OF NIGERIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION LAWS

The neighbourhood’s test propounded by Lord Atkin in the locus classicus case of Donoghue Vs Stevenson! was intended for consumer protection. The facts of the case were that the appellant brought an action against the respondent because she had suffered injury as a result of drinking and seeing contaminated contents of ginger beer containing decomposed remains of a snail. The beer was manufactured by the respondents and bought from them by the owner of a café who was a retail seller from whom the appellant bought. In finding for the appellant the House of Lords in England per Lord Atkin held: …