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!
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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
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