Thursday, February 9th, 2012

My previous post on Uren v Corporate Leisure (UK) and ors [2010] EWHC 46 (QB) is below http://www.interalialegal.com/2010/02/an-update-on-the-law-of-negligence/ Mr Uren has now appealed to the Court of Appeal against the decision of Field J – see Robert Lee Uren v (1) Corporate Leisure (UK) Ltd and (2) Ministry of Defence [2011] EWCA Civ 66.  The appellant [...]

I have come across two cases on the law of negligence that, even in the current climate of the compensation culture, judges have resisted the need to depart from the general principles of negligence.  In Parker v TUI UK Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 1261, the claimant was injured when taking part in a tobogganing event [...]