The Occupiers Liability Act is an important piece of health and safety legislation that puts a duty on those who are in control of a premises to take all reasonable steps to avoid visitors being injured. So keeping the place maintained is an important thing to do – allowing a place to fall in to disrepair and become a hazard would leave the owners of such a place liable to compensate any injured victims.
Some examples of slips and trips caused like this could be:
- From a piece of concrete or wall or roof coming off and causing a trip of slip hazard due to poor maintenance.
- Slip on a broken piece or section of fallen off tiling – these specifically can be very slippery.
- Injury caused by a piece of defective chair or table or other fixture that has broken off through ill repair.
So what happens if you are the victim of such an accident? Can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?
Proving Negligence
We must prove that whoever is in control of the premises has breached their duty of care to look out for you. If the defect that has caused the injury is through something that is poorly maintained, you may have a valid claim. If the owners knew or ought to have known to do something about it, we can allege they have failed to take all reasonable steps. If some tiling is cracked and failing with other pieces falling off previous to the one that caused your accident, we would allege they should have done more to stop you being injured!
So if this has happened to you, how does it work when it comes to getting a solicitor and making a claim?
Most other lawyers will want to take 25% from your payout because the law changed in April 2013 that stopped lawyers being able to recover all of the fees from the other side. But we will still let you keep all 100% of your compensation claim because we don’t believe its right that you should lose some of your compensation. We still get paid by the other side, but we just get less money than we used to.
We can afford to take that hit for you because we take on and win such a high volume of claims and have a history of many happy clients.
It’s No Win, No Fee as well so if the claim doesn’t win we won’t be charging you. So for help and advice give us a call on 0800 634 75 75 today.
