Responsibility

[eFestivals]

judge ruled in favour of the pool owner.

anyone who thought it would be any different was very daft.

While many people today think that only others have responsibility for their own actions, the laws of this country are not so foolish.

[grumpyhack]

I'm not a lover of compensation culture. No win/no fee lawers try to get people to claim for all sorts of accidents. But, that said, if someone has genuinely suffered as a result of another person or organisation's negligence then at least an attempt to obtain redress is now affordable.

One of my friends tripped and fell at the Chagstock Festival the other week and dislocated his shoulder. He ended up getting taken by ambulance to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, having an emergency operation (it turned out he'd also broken a bone in his shoulder and had to have a plate fitted). But his first thought wasn't could he sue the festival, it was could he manage to get back for the rest of it?

He was persuaded that it wouldn't be a good idea and sadly ended up going home on the train with his shoulder strapped up.

He'll now be off work for six weeks but his reflection on the festival is what a great event it was and what a superb service was provided at midnight by the St John's Ambulance volunteers on the site.

Edited August 3, 2011 by grumpyhack

[eFestivals]

I'm not a lover of compensation culture. No win/no fee lawers try to get people to claim for all sorts of accidents. But, that said, if someone has genuinely suffered as a result of another person or organisation's negligence then at least an attempt to obtain redress is now affordable.

One of my friends tripped and fell at the Chagstock Festival the other week and dislocated his shoulder. He ended up getting taken by ambulance to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, having an emergency operation (it turned out he'd also broken a bone in his shoulder and had to have a plate fitted). But his first thought wasn't could he sue the festival, it was could he manage to get back for the rest of it?

He was persuaded that it wouldn't be a good idea and sadly ended up going home on the train with his shoulder strapped up.

He'll now be off work for six weeks but his reflection on the festival is what a great event it was and what a superb service was provided at midnight by the St John's Ambulance volunteers on the site.

here at eFestivals towers, we get all sorts of letters that are meant for others. Isn't the diligent research of solicitors great?

Anyway, not so long ago we got a letter from a solicitor's about a similar thing, where someone had tripped over at a festival and was suing them.

Of course, the fact that festivals are normally held on uneven ground seems to have passed the person who is suing by entirely, who obviously thinks that their responsibility for the operation of their legs doesn't exist and its instead the responsibility of the festival.

And of course, the fact that that person was pissed isn't relevant.

It's always someone else's fault. No injured party can ever be responsible for their own injuries.

[rexclark]

Anyway, not so long ago we got a letter from a solicitor's about a similar thing, where someone had tripped over at a festival and was suing them.