Lawful visitors

• Adult Visitors

  • Invitees - invited to enter
  • Licensees - permission to be on land for particular period
  • Contractual permission - e.g. entry tickets for an event
  • Statutory right of entry - e.g. meter readers

  Adult visitors are owed the common duty of care - (Laverton v Kiapasha Takeaway Supreme)
• Occupiers liability to children

  Owed common duty and additional special duty:

  • Occupier 'must be prepared for children to be less careful than adults as a result, the premises must reasonably safe for a child that age'.
  • (Glasgow corporation v Taylor)
• Occupiers liability to people carrying out trade/ skilled visitors


  Occupiers owe tradesmen the common duty of care

  However they do not owe a duty to warn skilled visitors of risks associated with their profession

  ( Roles v Nathan)