Negligence: Carelessness. A person who owes a duty of care to someone else and breaches it by lack of reasonable care may be liable in damages for negligence. The negligence may involve a positive deed or a failure to act. If no damage results, there can be no action. The standard of care required is usually that of the reasonable man, but a person who claims to have special skills (such as a surgeon) owes a higher duty of care.
Neighbourhood Development Order
A neighbourhood planning tool that allows communities to essentially grant planning permission for a specific form of development either on a specific site or over a wider area. The process is subject to independent examination and a community referendum as per a neighbourhood plan.
Neighbourhood Plans
A plan prepared by a Parish or Town Council or a Neighbourhood Forum for a particular neighbourhood area (made under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004). The plan can set out land use planning policies and the allocation of land provided they are in conformity with strategic policies of the local plan and have regard to national policy and guidance. The process is subject to independent examination and a community referendum.
Nemo judex in sua causa
Nemo judex in sua causa: (Latin: nobody may be a judge in his own case) Principle of natural justice. A judge must be seen to be free of bias and may not have any interest – personal, pecuniary or otherwise – in a case he is deciding. Also referred to as nemo debet esse judex in propria causa.
New Approach
Introduced in 1985, a new approach to technical harmonization and standards, to eliminate technical barriers to the free circulation of goods
New Legislative Framework (NLF)
Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 and Decision 768/2008/EC
Next of kin
Next of kin: Person”s nearest blood relation. The expression has come to describe those persons most closely related to a dead person and therefore due to inherit his property if there is no will.
Noise Induced Hearing Loss
An incurable condition caused by both acute and chronic exposure to a loud noise.
Nominated Supplier
supplier (3.7.30) selected by a client (3.7.2) or his representative
Non est factum
Non est factum: (Latin: not his deed) Defence in contract law which allows a person to avoid liability because he was mistaken about the nature of the contract. For example, a person who signs away the deed to a house, thinking that the document was only a guarantee for a debt, might be able to plead non est factum. Failure to read the terms of a contract will negate this defence.
