Tripping and Slipping Cases: A Practitioner's Guide (Personal Injury Library) (Longman Personal Injury Library)

This working manual offers practitioners practical and self-contained advice for dealing with tripping and slipping cases. Complete with precedents, the book not only takes the reader through procedure, but also provides summaries of selected cases and specimen pleadings. This edition includes a detailed account of the difficulties involved in suing statutory undertakings, with special consideration from the standpoint of both the potential plaintiff and the statutory undertaker. Coverage of statutory law includes the recently enforced Roads and Street Works Act 1991 which governs the legal relationship between highway authorities and other statutory undertakers. There is also a discussion on the case "McGeown versus Northern Ireland Housing Executive" which impacts upon the liability of occupiers to people injured when using public rights of way.