Tripping and Slipping Cases
A Practitioner's Guide
3rd Edition
Published on 3. October 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-0-421-77850-4 (ISBN)
Description
The new edition of this popular working manual offers practitioners expert guidance on how to win and defend tripping and slipping cases. Intended as a one-stop text for readers who do not have time to research all the legal disciplines that may come into play in a trip or slip case, it covers all the relevant areas of law - Local Government, Landlord and Tenant, Occupier's Liability, Highways, Factories and Health and Safety at Work. Logical in approach and written in clear and easy to follow language, Tripping and Slipping Cases: A Practitioner's Guide provides complete guidance on this common, yet complicated, type of litigation, and is sure to save valuable research time. * Up to date - includes new precedents and specimen pleadings for areas of practice that have developed since the last edition * Practical - solutions offered to the problems most frequently encountered * Comprehensive - provides guidance for both defendants and claimants * Detailed - covers the law in depth in a clear and easy to follow style
Reviews / Votes
The invaluable little manual packed with all the little details that you never knew existed about this quirky area of the law. The style is clear, succinct and very readable. Justice of the Peace (of the previous edition).More details
Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-421-77850-4 (9780421778504)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
09/1996
2nd Edition
Sweet & Maxwell
€79.52
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Content
Selecting the defendant. The definition, classification and creation of highways. The structure of local government. The statutory duty of highway authorities to maintain. Negligence. Nuisance. The liability of occupiers. The liability of landlords. Miscellaneous statutory duties. Preparing a case. Appendices: Precedents; Case summaries; Addresses; Metric and imperial units of length.