Back in 2019, the Court of Appeal considered the duty of care owed by Local Authorities to grit public car parks.

The case went back to the cold winter of 2012. Mr Ivor Cook who was 78 at the time visited the Bush Car Park which is situated in a suburban area of Swansea. It was a Council car park managed by Swansea City Council.

Falling from vehicles is not uncommon, with even more of those falling being struck by moving vehicles. Each year around 2000 people have an accident after falling from vehicles. As a result of this common occurrence, employers must take reasonable steps to ensure that Health and Safety provisions are set in place to minimise the risk of accident. But what happens when you have a Defendant who has appeared to take reasonable steps in order to minimise the risk, but the Claimant argues that these weren’t sufficient, due to the severity of risk?

When an injury at work occurs, who is to blame? If the incident gives rise to a claim, blame is usually assigned to the defendant. However, a lot of cases aren’t so cut and dried, they may well be more complicated. It is likely that contributory negligence will be found if the accident can is partly or wholly your fault.

The big question is, how can you take part and how can you make sure you do it right? Whilst some retailers are offering genuine deals, there are others who aren’t in fact offering customers the bargain they claim to be offering.

On 19 June 2020 the Government published the Code of Practice for commercial property relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Code is voluntary rather than mandatory. It’s objective is to provide a level of support to all those stakeholders in the commercial property sector. This ranges from customers and occupiers, through to the landlords and lenders.

Overage provisions take many different forms to accommodate a variety of scenarios. The common theme among all though is they cover the situation where the parties to a property transaction agree that the circumstances justify the seller being entitled to further payments in relation to the property being sold, at some point in the future. The parties are free to set the terms of the overage provisions which will often be shaped by current market conditions and the respective bargaining strengths of the parties involved.

While many deals are done on the basis of a handshake or a phone call and the parties end up happy, asking if written Terms of Business are important is like asking whether you should have insurance or whether we need a highway code.

GDPR is a European directive and its aim was to harmonise data privacy laws across Europe, so how will it apply to the UK if we leave the EU and leave with no deal? How should you prepare for such scenarios?