The week on the Law Report, Damien Carrick interviews University Queensland lecturer Alan Davidson about a recent US court decision that assigned civil liability to a person who knowingly texted a driver who subsequently crashed his car.

The exciting part about it is it does establish a new legal principle. Beforehand no one would have thought or would have even guessed that this would have been the case. It reminds me of Donoghue and Stevenson, the case with the snail and the ginger beer bottle that most lawyers and members of the public know about.

See US courts focus on people who text drivers (10 September 2013).