THE CLAPHAM OMNIBUS

A series of stills taken aboard the back of the Clapham Omnibus.

“Public opinion is the opinion of the bald-headed man at the back of the omnibus”
                                                                                                 Walter Bagehot, 1867

The man on the Clapham omnibus is a reasonably educated and intelligent but non-specialist person — a reasonable person, a hypothetical person against whom a defendant's conduct might be judged in an English law civil action for negligence. This is the standard of care comparable to that which might be exercised by "the man on the Clapham omnibus" mentioned by Greer LJ in Hall v. Brooklands Auto-Racing Club (1933) ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_man_on_the_Clapham_omnibus