The Court of Appeal’s judgment in Esdale v Dover District Council [2010] EWCA Civ 409 highlights the significance of a local authority’s policy when considering a claim under s.2(2) of the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957. In short, the claimant was injured when she tripped and fell on a pathway that led up to a block [...]
Posted by Darren Sylvester on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 6:30 am
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Dr Kate Pretty, principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, has stated that A-levels are not adequately preparing teenagers for university and has found that students were arriving at university with short attention spans because they had taken A-levels in bite-sized chunks. “The gulf between the end of A-levels and the start of degrees was now too great”, [...]
Posted by Darren Sylvester on Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 6:44 am
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In Swain v Geoffrey Osborne & Anor [2010] EWHC 1108 (QB), Foskett J held that a subcontractor with responsibility for ground-works on a building site was liable for personal injuries sustained by the claimant who had slipped on mud near to the site due to the failure to implement an effective system to ensure that [...]
Posted by Darren Sylvester on Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 1:48 pm
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In Kernot v Jones [2010] EWCA Civ 578, the Court of Appeal held that Leonard Kernott was entitled to a 50% share of the home he lived in for eight years with his former girlfriend, Patricia Jones, despite the fact that he had neither paid for nor lived in it since 1993. It was Patricia [...]
Posted by Darren Sylvester on Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 10:48 pm
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