Tripping and Slipping Cases
A Practitioner's Guide
Charles Foster(Author)
Sweet & Maxwell (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published in September 1996
Book
256 pages
978-0-7520-0289-7 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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.
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.
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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)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)
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7520-0289-7 (9780752002897)
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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.