Category: Civil Law

Window cleaner falls from open window when the sash window falls on his hands

When the employer was wrong to assume that the window cleaner should have known better ...

When the law understands there is a difference between the natural environment and the built environment ...

When the absence of any lifeguards, or anyone with CPR skills, was a significant factor in the boy’s death ...

When contradictory evidence didn’t help, especially when he marked the referee with a ‘B’ (A is top marks) ...

When it was not only foreseeable that a blind person would walk down the street, it was ‘reasonably foreseeable’. ...

When there has never been an accident until now, but if there is a safer way… ...

When ‘lifeguards cannot substitute the supervision of a parent’, but should still be there, just in case ...

When the natural world is more difficult to predict and manage than man-made structures ...

When there is poor risk assessment management at a corporate and local level, poor communication and poor supervision ...