Home / PI & Clinical Negligence / Types of claim / Accidents abroad

Legal News

Mountaineering expedition organiser not liable for injury caused by staged accident (Harrison v Jagged Globe)

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis
Published on: 11 July 2012
Published by a LexisNexis PI & Clinical Negligence expert

Table of contents

  • Court details
  • Facts
  • Judgment
  • Comment

Article summary

A judgment has recently been handed down by the Court of Appeal allowing an appeal brought by the defendants in the matter of Harrison v Jagged Globe. The appeal hearing took place on 29 May 2012 after Jagged Globe appealed against a Central London County Court judgment where they had been found liable for injuries sustained by the claimant, Natalie Harrison, during a mountaineering training expedition.

Powered by Lexis+®
Jurisdiction(s):
United Kingdom

Related documents:

4 News
View More
4 Practice notes
View More
4 Q&As
View More
Powered by Lexis+®

Related documents:

4 News
View More
4 Practice notes
View More
4 Q&As
View More

Popular documents

Psychiatric injury—secondary victims—case tracker

Psychiatric injury—secondary victims—case trackerThis case tracker reviews the case law which has been decided since the lead case of Alcock v Chief Constable of Yorkshire Police in 1991. Subsequent case law developed the concept of secondary victims and explored the extent that courts would allow

Psychiatric injury—establishing liability

Psychiatric injury—establishing liabilityLiability for psychiatric injury is dependent in part on the nature of the injuries suffered and the manner in which they were sustained.Classifying the victimWhere a claimant suffers both physical and psychiatric injury (even if the physical injury was very

The employer’s duty of care

The employer’s duty of careThis Practice Note considers the scope of an employer’s common law duty to ensure the safety of their employees with specific reference to the duty to provide safe premises, plant, system of working and staff. This Practice Note also considers the Enterprise and Regulatory

Claims against the police

Claims against the policeIntroductionThe police force is a pure public authority (ie performs only public functions). Therefore, claims can be brought against it under the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) and of misfeasance in public office. For further guidance, see Practice Notes: Personal injury