As an example, [ case ]concerned a car rally meeting. Notices on the site stated that there was danger and that the occupier would not be liable for any damage howsoever caused. There were similar notices in the programme for the race meeting. The plaintiff had seen the notices. During the event he was standing in a spectator area behind a rope barrier. A wheel of one of the vehicles caught the rope, released it and catapulted the defendant 20 yards thereby killing him. It was held that volens did not apply as, in the circumstances, the plaintiff could not have been fully aware of the particular risk caused by the inadequate barrier. However, it was held that the notices constituted a reasonable exclusion of liability
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White v Blackmore [1972] 2 QB 651
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As an example, [ case ]concerned a car rally meeting. Notices on the site stated that there was danger and that the occupier would not be liable for any damage howsoever caused. There were similar notices in the programme for the race meeting. The plaintiff had seen the notices. During the event he was standing in a spectator area behind a rope barrier. A wheel of one of the vehicles caught the rope, released it and catapulted the defendant 20 yards thereby killing him. It was held that volens did not apply as, in the circumstances, the plaintiff could not have been fully aware of the particular risk caused by the inadequate barrier. However, it was held that the notices constituted a reasonable exclusion of liability
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#occupiers-liability #tort
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As an example, [ case ]concerned a car rally meeting. Notices on the site stated that there was danger and that the occupier would not be liable for any damage howsoever caused. There were similar notices in the programme for the race meeting. The plaintiff had seen the notices. During the event he was standing in a spectator area behind a rope barrier. A wheel of one of the vehicles caught the rope, released it and catapulted the defendant 20 yards thereby killing him. It was held that volens did not apply as, in the circumstances, the plaintiff could not have been fully aware of the particular risk caused by the inadequate barrier. However, it was held that the notices constituted a reasonable exclusion of liability
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White v Blackmore [1972] 2 QB 651
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