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             It has also been held that a duty of care should not be imposed because the authorities' manpower and resources would be diverted from providing public services to defending claims and because officials would become unduly fearful of litigation and perform their functions too cautiously. This illustrates the reasons as to why public authority is given, to a certain extent, a 'cloak of immunity' with regards to the imposition of the duty of care. The so-called cloak is manifested in X v. Bedfordshire itself. The courts decided that it would be wrong for policy reasons to superimpose a common law duty of care o
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