OLA 1984

• An occupier is someone with a degree of control and there can be more than one occupier in a situation

  Wheat
• The clarification of duty of common humanity

  British Railway board v Herrington
• An occupier will not be liabel if there is no reason to suspect that a trespasser is present

  Higgs
• A person can enter land as a visitor and then become a trespasser

  Tomlinson
• The claim must arise out the state of premises not the dangerous actions of the claimant

  Keown
• A duty will only be owed by an occupier if 1), 2) he has actual knowledge that C will come into the vicinity of the danger

  White
• A duty will only be owed by an occupier if 1), 2), 3) the risk is one against which the D may be reasonably expected to offer some protection

  Donoghue
• Occupiers dont need to warn against obvious dangers


  Ratcliff
• Contributory negligence is a valid defence under OLA 1984

  Young