... ....to extend to such close and direct relations that the act complained of directly affects a person whom the person alleged to be bound to take care would know would be directly affected by his careless act...' Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [1936] UKPC Donoghue was ratified and furthered. It held that - * Essential question was not if the product could be examined and if so, does it remove liability from the manufacturer. Privy Council ruled that even if the product is observable, the question is whether the product reached the consumer subject to the same defect it had left the manufacturer. * On the question, if the defect might have been discovered, preclude the imposition of a duty of care on the manufacturer, it is implied from the Grant case that, that depends on 'the reasonable possibility of intermediate examination'. In a later case, it was further ruled that liability ...

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