Ingredients a plaintiff/claimant must prove to succeed in an action for negligence; standard of proof required.
“The law therefore places a burden on the plaintiff to prove that the defendant was negligent. In so doing, the plaintiff is expected to prove three essential ingredients as follows:
a. That the defendant owed him a duty of care; b. That the duty of care was breached; and
c. That the plaintiff suffered damages arising from the breach. It is the responsibility of the Appellants, as plaintiffs, to prove the above ingredients based on balance of probability and/or preponderance of evidence with cogent evidence as to the specific act or acts of the defendant which resulted in the negligence and not merely on conjecture and speculation or
half-truths or concealment of facts.”
