A householder in greater Leeds has received a compensation claim from a postal worker who slipped on his front steps delivering a letter (see here). The drift of these stories is always that there is a compensation culture gone mad, and fings aint what they used to be.
But is it so unreasonable for someone to take responsibility for the slip resistance of their front steps, especially when there are five of them). The fact that the homeowner says "no one's ever had a problem on them before in the 12 years we've lived here" might just be down to luck and doesn't mean they shouldn't have watched out for wear. Comes down to foreseeability i suppose. It's not that I think private individuals should be risk assessing every potential impace they or their goods could have ad-infinitum, i'm just irked (again) by the national press's assumption that they have a monopoly on common sense.
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