Occupiers' liability

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1972

Principle established: An occupier owes trespassers a 'duty of common humanity': where he knows of a serious danger and the likely presence of trespassers, he must take the steps a humane person would take, judged by his own resources.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1922

Principle established: A tempting danger can be an 'allurement' to children. An occupier must take more care for children than for adults.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1941

Principle established: An occupier who reasonably entrusts technical work to a competent contractor is not liable for the contractor's negligent work.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1866

Principle established: An occupier must use reasonable care to prevent damage to an invitee from unusual dangers that he knows or ought to know of.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1955

Principle established: An occupier may expect that parents will not let very young children go about without supervision. The main responsibility for small children lies with their parents.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1929

Principle established: At common law an occupier owed a trespasser no duty of care, only a duty not to injure him deliberately or recklessly.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 2003

Principle established: An occupier does not have to protect adults from obvious dangers of activities they freely choose to do.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1966

Principle established: An occupier is anyone with a sufficient degree of control over premises. There can be more than one occupier at a time.