Trustees of the Portsmouth Youth Activities Committee v Poppleton [2008] EWCA Civ 646

Tort: Look before you leap

David Sawtell summarises the law relating to assumption of risk ‘The practitioner must carefully weigh up the indicia pointing towards and away from an “assumption of responsibility” when assessing the merits of a claim or a defence.’ It would be sensible to expect someone who is injured sliding down the banisters in a pub to …

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Volenti: Dangerous activities

looks at recent decisions concerning the line to be drawn between personal responsibility and the liability of others Julian Matthews ‘The courts, often ready to find that there has been some degree of contributory fault, are now far more reluctant to fix individuals with the full consequences of their own actions then in earlier generations.’ …

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