Hi,
My first post.
Is there any case law on an injury claim whilst entering a performance area?
e.g. An individual decides to enter a Morris Dance street performance,then is 'surprised'when a DANCER steps backwards !! The person then falls & is injured.
Has he / she a claim? i.e. against the dancer? the street festival organisation? (the street is closed & subject to a premises license)?
Note this is the first such incident in 22 years.
COMMENT:
If a sports ground the claim / claimant would be thrown out !!!
Regards,Paul
Not sure about the law on this but if the side is in the UK and it is a member of one of the associations in the Joint Morris Organisation (JMO) then public liability cover for issues like this is included in the group's membership fee.
"The JMO is made up of the Morris Ring, the Morris Federation and the Open Morris. JMO Insurance cover is available to Morris Sides and associated groups to provide Public Liability cover whilst dancing or at practice. This is included in the membership of one of the three member organisations. "
From the Morris Ring website: http://www.themorrisring.org/sides/insurance-sides
There are numerous possibilities here depending on the facts and circumstances. There may be claimsunder occupiers liability if the performersmhad a license to use the area and were therefore occupying it. There may be liability with regards to the local council who would have authorised the performance, rhere may be simple negligence liability of the,performers if they have not taken reasonable care to ensure that others would not be injured by their performance.
There may also be contributory negligence of the injured party which could reduce or remove their chance of compensation if they simply wandered into a well marked performance area without looking where they were going or were not paying due care and attention to their own safety. You do say the street was closed off and that the individual 'decided' to enter the area of the performance, a long established performance by the sounds of it. That sounds like they were careless to be honest, and may not be capable of being compensated for anything. In fact, if the dancer was injured it could even be the other way around!
Hi
Im just started the law course and wondering if anyone can help out with advise for a friend. Its totally out of my league.She bought a property in Spain last year but it was never built and she has lost a lot of money. She needss to know where to go from here. I dont think she has anyone acting for her yet but just needs a bit of advice as to the correct procedure to pursue this. Any information or advice would be greatly appreciated for me to pass on to her. Thanks. By the way im really enjoying the law course.
I have read about law on an injury claims or compensations on some of injury law websites. Last year my cousin met with an accident and were looking for injury claims and I think he contact some people throught a website. Might be you will get some useful information here regarding such injury claims. These guys are good to help you for such cases
Link :
car accident injury compensation
That is something very different from the regular kind of accidents and i have read a lot od article about the whiplash compensation at many of the different place and never found any case like this. There should be some sort of compensation in these cases also.
Hi Paul that sounds like a injury were you do not know who to blame best advice i can give you is talk with a no win no fee lawyer or visit a no win no fee claim website my brother got great advice from these guys car accident claims and things turned out good for him. Good luck Paul.
No win no fee solicitors, the injury claim super specialists of the UK are one of the legal experts who can promise full compensation.As per my knowledge best this kind of accidents is something very different from the regular kind of accidents.It is very difficult to give any advice for this accidents.
injury claims
What happens is past and thinking or crying on that is nothing more than wasting time. What effective you can do which I think you must as well is to consider contacting no win no fee lawyers assistance. No totally but this incident is similar to accidents at work and so you can make an accident at work claim. They will help you out with not just thye suggestion but winning the compensation as well by providing an expert solicitors assistance.
Thanks
James
If the injury was caused by another individual or organisation, and you know that you weren't to blame for the accident, you can make a compensation claim. You must make the claim within three years for it to be eligible.