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2011-11-16 |
MENDOZA, J. |
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| Gross negligence connotes want of care in the performance of one's duties, while habitual neglect implies repeated failure to perform one's duties for a period of time, depending on the circumstances.[40] Gross negligence has been defined as the want or absence of or failure to exercise slight care or diligence, or the entire absence of care. It evinces a thoughtless disregard of consequences without exerting any effort to avoid them.[41] | |||||
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2009-10-09 |
ABAD, J. |
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| Gross negligence, on the other hand, is the want of even slight care, acting or omitting to act in a situation where there is duty to act, not inadvertently but willfully and intentionally, with a conscious indifference to consequences insofar as other persons may be affected.[18] It evinces a thoughtless disregard of consequences without exerting any effort to avoid them;[19] the want or absence of or failure to exercise slight care or diligence, or the entire absence of care.[20] | |||||
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2002-02-27 |
BELLOSILLO, J. |
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| Gross negligence has been defined as the want or absence of or failure to exercise slight care or diligence, or the entire absence of care. It evinces a thoughtless disregard of consequences without exerting any effort to avoid them.[19] A perusal of the records of the case does not in any way show that private respondents were even remotely negligent of their duties so as to cause the loss of petitioner National Bookstore's funds. Private respondents were able to illustrate with candor and sincerity the procedure they took prior to the loss which was witnessed by an employee of petitioner National Bookstore. They were in fact subjected to a thorough body search by petitioner National Bookstore's lady guard before leaving their place of work on the date in issue, a claim not controverted by petitioners. Moreover, it was not even shown that they had access to the vault where the money was kept. | |||||