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defective premises

If you have been injured in premises, whether they are maintained by the local authority, the owner of the premises or the occupier of those premises, you may have a claim. That person has a duty of care to all visitors who use or visit that property.

Premises are not always a building and recent cases have determined that premises can be land, electricity pylons, diving boards or ladders!

Builders have a duty to build dwellings properly so that those dwellings will be fit for habitation.

Landlords have a duty of care where premises are let under a tenancy where the landlord has an obligation to maintain or repair the property.

The Landlord owes a duty of care to anyone visiting or living in the property and may be affected by the condition of those premises.

If you have been injured as a result of an accident which occurred in a building, you may have a claim. Contact our Personal Injury Team or email janet.watson@ridleyandhall.co.uk  for free advice.

Recent cases

Janet Watson has successfully completed a claim against a local firm of builders six years after the client moved into her new build property. The client was injured in 2006 as she walked down the staircase in her house and her foot went through the wooden step which split in two. Proceedings were commenced under the Defective Premises Act 1972 at the beginning of 2008. The client had sustained a severe injury to her left knee and was unable to squat or kneel as result. In consequence of this she had to give up her job as a special schools nurse.