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Reasonable care: Slipping claims and evidential burdens
Thomas Herbert summarises the case law and considers the burden of proof required ‘Where the evidence demonstrates that the spillage had only been present for a short time, the defendant will likely escape liability.’ The law in slipping cases is, in theory, settled and straightforward. One question that often arises in practice, however, is whether …