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Hartley v Riverside Leisure Ltd

Occupiers’ liability

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Your question

We act for the occupier. The claimant dived from a pontoon into the lake at our client’s activity centre and broke his neck. Does the "state of the premises" argument under s.1(1)(a) OLA 1984 help us? I’ve attached the accident report.

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Where did the risk come from?

In Tomlinson the House of Lords held that an ordinary stretch of open water presents no danger due to the state of the premises: the lake was no more dangerous than any other body of water, and nothing about its physical features caused the injury .

The risk instead arose from what the claimant chose to do on the premises. Lord Hoffmann thought it would be extremely rare for an occupier to owe a duty to prevent people taking risks inherent in activities they freely choose to undertake .

What cuts against you

The pontoon is a man-made structure the occupier installed; the claimant will argue it is a feature of the premises that invites the very activity complained of, which distinguishes it from the natural lake in Tomlinson. That is the argument to prepare for.

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Fictional matter. Excerpt from a recorded answer. Real case law, with the original judgment linked. Judgment text: UK Parliament, Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

See what changes when the evidence is connected.

Can you prove
the whole delay?

A draft blames the contractor for a six-week delay. See what the records actually support.

Interactive example · Fictional Wren refurbishment matter

Wren refurbishmentFrom the papers to the position you take.
Dates referred to in the draft31 March 12 May
Email14 March · 09:18

Re: Revised layout

Client Contractor

Thanks for the drawings.

Please go ahead with the revised layout.

Let me know what this means for the quote.

Changes.eml
Evidence you can inspect. Reasoning you can challenge.Explore each step above.
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Client call, 17 March.m4aRecording → transcript → working note

Approval was for a quotation, not the additional work.

I was waiting for a price before they started.

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The question

What standard must a consumer service meet?

Alesis analysis

Reasonable care and skill.

Section 49 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 puts a standard of reasonable care and skill into every contract to supply a service to a consumer.

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Apply it to the facts

Identify the service the trader agreed to provide, then examine how it was performed. The statutory wording is the starting point for that assessment.

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In practice at New South Law

“Supervisors are able to review more work, junior staff are producing higher-quality first drafts, and consistency across the department has improved materially.”
New South LawCustomer case studynewsouthlaw.co.uk

Why they looked

New South Law described fee-earner time lost to research across disconnected platforms. Its leadership was already using AI, with particular care around confidential client data and the risk of inaccurate answers.

What made the difference

Authoritative sources and clear explanations of missing information gave the firm confidence to proceed. In complex document review, it highlighted structured issue registers, red-line amendments and comments directly within documents.

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“Our team was producing useful outputs from day one, with meaningful operational benefits being realised within the first few days.”

The team also reported faster document production and more capacity for case strategy, staff training and client service.

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