The Risk of Ice: 3PB Personal Injury barrister Henrietta Hughes analyses the appeal case of Cook v Swansea CC
29th March 2018
In recent weeks snow and ice have swept across the UK. The appeal case of Mr Ivor Cook v Swansea City Council [2017] EWCA Civ 2142 concerns a claim arising from slipping on the latter.
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