Occupier’s Liability | Cases

Duty to Visitors

Occupiers Liability Act 1957

Phipps v Rochester Corporation [1955] 1 QB 450

Roles v Nathan [1963] 1 WLR 1117

Wheat v Lacon [1966] AC 552

Simms v Leigh RFC [1969] 2 All ER 923

White v Blackmore [1972] 2 QB 651

Ferguson v Welsh [1987] 1 WLR 1553

Darby v National Trust [2001] EWCA Civ 182

Tomlinson v Congleton BC [2004] 1 AC 46

Portsmouth Youth Activities Committee v Poppleton [2008] EWCA Civ 646

Bourne Leisure Ltd v Marsden [2009] EWCA Civ 671

Harvey v Plymouth CC [2010] EWCA Civ 860

Geary v JD Wetherspoon plc [2011] EWHC 1506

Duty to Trespassers

Occupiers Liability Act 1984

Herrington v British Rail Board [1972] AC 877

Donoghue v Folkestone Properties [2003] 2 WLR 1138

Tomlinson v Congleton BC [2004] 1 AC 46

Keown v Coventry NHS Trust [2006] 1 WLR 953

Exclusion of Liability

Ashdown v Samuel Williams [1957] 1 All ER 35

Acts of Third Parties

Everett v Comojo (UK) Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 13