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Occupiers Rights... - Angus Piper, 1 Chancery Lane

14/05/14. The National Press seem to enjoy the facts of a personal injury claim, decided last week in the High Court by John Leighton-Williams QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. The case was Lisa Driver v Roman Painted House Trust and Dover City Council. It arose from a night out in July 2007, where Mrs Driver had sometime after midnight fallen down a 20 foot embankment which lay behind a three foot wall on land owned by the Council and used by the Trust as a carpark. The claim was brought under the Occupiers Liability Act 1957 and the Claimant contended that she was a lawful visitor. Both Defendants contended that she was in fact a trespasser, and the 1984 Act applied, given that she was in...

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