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Asdown v Williams: 1957

People regularly took a short cut over the defendants’ land. There was no contract by which they entered. They just walked across the land. The defendants put up notices which were clearly visible to all of them. The notices told these bare licensees that they took the short cut at their own risk. The plaintiff was injured on the land.
Held: The notices were effective to protect the occupier. They did little more than tell the licensees the position at common law: a bare licensee came at his own risk.

Citations:

[1957] 1 QB 409

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CrticisedWhite v Blackmore CA 15-Jun-1972
The plaintiff attended a jalopy car race and was injured. It was a condition of his entry that he agreed that motor racing was dangerous and that he would not hold the organisers or others responsible if injured. He was injured when a safety rope, . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Land, Personal Injury

Updated: 26 November 2022; Ref: scu.650944

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