Personal Injury Briefing: October 2021

In May of this year Robert Parkin and Henk Soede authored an extremely popular briefing on the Occupiers Liability Act 1957. In this companion briefing Andrew Spencer considers the question of who is an occupier and Robert Parkin provides a useful analysis of the scope of an occupier’s obligations to those he has not invited onto his land, often referred to for convenience as trespassers. The Occupiers Liability Act 1984 is an important piece of legislation for personal injury practitioners to understand. It contains some fairly stringent hurdles a claimant must overcome in order to bring a successful claim against an occupier of land from whom he had no permission to be there.

You can read the previous briefing on Occupier’s Liability here and view the webinar Occupier’s Liability – Reminder of the Basics.

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You can read the October Briefing in full here.