Complete the text using the verbs in the table in the correct form.

Every English law student will be familiar with the famous case of Donoghue v Stevenson. On August 26, 1928, Mrs May Donoghue sat in the Wellmeadow Café in Paisley and drank a ginger beer. The bottle contained the decomposed remains of a snail. Mrs Donoghue (1)…………. from shock and severe gastro-enteritis. She (2)…………. the manufacturer for negligence. Lord Atkin (3)………… that, “You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour”. Her case was settled for £200. Many claimants have since won similar cases, although others have lost.

Now here is a modern-day case. A dead fly was at the bottom of a drinking water bottle in a kitchen in Windsor, Ontario, when it was seen by Martin Mustapha and his wife. He became obsessed with the event and its implications for the health of his family. Then he (4)…………. a major depressive disorder, phobia and anxiety that (5)…………. his sleep, sex life, business and willingness to take showers. He sued Culligan, the Canadian company that .(6)………… the water bottle, for $341,000 for psychiatric injury. The trial judge (7)…………. him damages but the Canadian Supreme Court has just rejected his claim.

Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin states in the unanimous ruling that the injuries were not “reasonably foreseeable” by ordinary standards. She said Mustapha (8)…………. to show that it was foreseeable that “a person of ordinary fortitude” (9)…………. serious injury from seeing the fly in the bottle of water.

Mustapha (10)…………. the case cost him $500,000 as the result of therapy and legal fees. The case has buzzed in the heads of all the lawyers, doctors, and company directors for six years, and has now had the attention of 12 senior Canadian judges. The total cost is over $1 million and has taken over 50,000 person-at-work hours if you include all the court officials and administrative staff. Don’t underestimate the impact a fly or a snail can make on the world!

Answers: 1) …suffered 2) …sued 3) …stated 4) …developed 5) …affected 6) …supplied 7) …awarded …failed 9) …would suffer 10) …claims