the man on the Clapham omnibus
the woman on the Clapham omnibus

But what would the man on the Clapham omnibus think?

But it is not just the man on the Clapham Omnibus.

The man on the Clapham omnibus - a hypothetical reasonable person

The standard of "the man on the Clapham omnibus" is not applied in all cases, since this might lead to unfairness.

Who needs the man on the Clapham Omnibus for economic sense when you’ve got the man at the bar?

That celebrated sage, the man on the Clapham omnibus, would no doubt readily assent to it.

In neither instance would the man on the Clapham omnibus think otherwise nor is it reasonable to expect that the appellant should be more omniscient.

a generic term for an average member of the public; "The man on the Clapham omnibus"

The man on the Clapham omnibus is a reasonably educated and intelligent but nondescript person, against whom the defendant's conduct can be measured.

They don't spend a lot of time with the man on the Clapham omnibus and they probably have an unhealthy contempt for his intelligence and taste.

In answer, he uses the idea of the 'right-minded man', the 'reasonable man' or 'the man on the Clapham omnibus':

Similarly the RCGP’s ‘collective’ view should not trump the view of the man on the Clapham Omnibus."

AFTER a delay of only 30 years the European Parliament has held its first formal consultations with the man on the Clapham omnibus.

The man on the Clapham Omnibus would assume that with a medical record of the passed 12 months any licences issued by a competent authority would be nullified. 109.

Was the act one that an ordinary decent person (normally considered to be the ubiquitous 'The man on the Clapham omnibus') would consider to be dishonest (the objective test)?

What does the Man on the Clapham Omnibus know of the European Union and its true powers over us, apart from what he reads in an antipathetic press?

Unless we do better than IT Year did in conveying what information technology is, who knows what uses the man on the Clapham omnibus will find for new technology.

Says Churchill, dew-lapped TV hound To The Man on the Clapham Omnibus – The ice-cap's melting; seek high ground!

There has been a focus on some policies that don’t really mean much to Conservative members or in fact the man on the Clapham Omnibus — such as House of Lords reform.

The man on the Clapham omnibus a hypothetical reasonable person, used by the courts in English law where it is necessary to decide whether a party has acted as a reasonable person would.

He discovered that night, in what has been called his 'Luftwaffe' speech, that his was not a voice in the wilderness; instead, he was speaking for the man on the Clapham omnibus.

The Common Services Agency the UK Supreme Court reviewed the term "reasonable person" using the analogy familiar in English law of "The man on the Clapham omnibus":

In a lawsuit in the UK about the publication of D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" the 'average person' was referred to as "the man on the Clapham omnibus".

A reasonable person can be defined as 'the man on the Clapham omnibus' as Greer LJ explains in Hall v Brooklands Auto-Racing Club (1933) 1 KB 205.