... precedents relating to other emergency services, in particular the fire service, the coastguard services were under no enforceable private law duty of care to respond to an emergency call. If they did respond to an emergency call, they were not under any duty of care if their response was negligent, save where their negligence consisted of a positive act, which directly caused injury, greater than that which would have occurred had they not intervened at all. ii) On grounds of public policy, it would not be in the public interest to impose a duty of care on the coastguard in the circumstances of this case. Court of Appeal HELD: The decision of the lower court and the reasons for that decision were upheld. ON APPEAL TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS CASES REFERRED TO IN JUDGMENT: Alexandrou v Oxford [1993] 4 ALL E.R. 328 CA Ancell & Ancell v McDermott [1993] 4 ALL E.R. 355 CA Barrett v Enfield London Borough Council [1999] ...

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