Personal Injury Briefing: November 2024

For this edition of the Personal Injury Briefing we are wrapping up warm, pouring a hot chocolate, passing around the treacle toffee and embracing all things Bonfire Night. Whilst we hope that all our readers enjoy the seasonal celebrations safely, we look at some of the issues that arise when things go wrong.

Laura Johnson KC and Kerry Nicholson discuss occupancy and activity duties in the context of public events, including the more stringent duty on an occupier that applies when they allow particularly risky or hazardous activities to take place on their land.

Sarah Prager KC and Julia Brechtelsbauer consider liability for defective fireworks and the mechanism by which claims for a latent defect can be brought in the jurisdiction even when the firework has been imported from abroad.

Many of our readers will be very interested to read John Schmitt’s topical article on the liability of emergency services responding to events such as fires, including a review of last week’s decision of the Supreme Court in Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police [2024] UKSC 33. Andrew Warnock KC and Ella Davis of Deka Chambers acted for the successful Chief Constable in the appeal and Ella’s summary of the decision can also be read here.

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