Child Injured in Restaurant Play Area
Miss G was having a meal with her parents at a fast food restaurant and playing with her sister in the children’s play area. While using a small climbing frame, Miss G suffered a deep cut to her hand caused by a sharp piece of metal which had become detached from one of the monkey bars on the frame. She was bleeding heavily from the wound, which was dressed at the scene using the restaurant’s first aid kit. Her parents took her to hospital, where she required a tetanus jab and four stitches in her hand. The family were understandably upset by the incident,vand filed an accident report with the restaurant’s manager. As the restaurant declined to take any further action, the family decided to seek legal advice.
Miss G’s mother got in touch with Bartletts Solicitors, as she had read about our expertise in handling claims for accidents involving children. We wrote to the restaurant’s owners explaining that the fast food restaurant owed a duty of care to all its customers under the Occupiers Liability Act 1957, and in this instance should have ensured that the climbing frame in their children’s play area was free from dangerous defects like the exposed metal that injured Miss G. The restaurant had not taken the necessary measures to provide a safe play area environment for its visitors, and this negligence had directly caused Miss G’s injury. Following an admission of liability, she received £2,700 in compensation to be held in trust for her by the court until she reaches the legal age of 18.
Child Cut by Broken Glass in Park
Bartletts Solicitors represented a young girl who tripped over and cut her hand on some broken glass lying on the ground next to a park bench where her family were sitting. Local residents had previously reported to the council that this area of the park regularly contained broken glass, and that it was only cleared up very infrequently. Its condition had not improved over the course of many months, despite a number of complaints from members of the public. The child attended an NHS walk-in centre later the same day where one deep laceration to her hand required five stitches, and other shards of glass that had penetrated her skin were removed. Her parents were upset and angry about the incident, as they lived nearby and were aware of the multiple previous complaints that had been made to the council.
The injured girl’s parents contacted our firm for advice, and we subsequently agreed to take on their daughter’s personal injury claim against the council on a no win no fee basis. We obtained statements from a number of local residents, all stating that the area of the park where the child cut her hand was frequently littered with broken glass left by youths gathering there in the evenings. Despite numerous complaints from residents, the council had failed to take any action to deal with the problem, and we argued that this represented negligence. These statements along with our letter of claim were sent to the council’s claims handler, and after a few months of correspondence we were able to gain an admission of partial liability for our client’s injury, with the latter receiving £2,250 in compensation.
Child Thrown From Trampoline at Holiday Park
Our client was a young child who was injured during a children’s club activity for 5-8 year olds at a holiday resort, and later made a successful compensation claim. The boy was using a trampoline in the resort’s fairground, when another child jumped onto the section of the trampoline that he was using, throwing him violently off it, and causing him to land heavily on the plastic matting surrounding the attraction. The member of the camp’s staff who was supposed to be supervising the activity was chatting to a colleague at the time of the accident, and was not paying proper attention to the children using the trampoline, otherwise he would have intervened when a number of the children started behaving disruptively. The boy broke his arm in the accident and was taken to hospital by ambulance.
The boy’s parents got in touch with Bartletts Solicitors for legal advice after he was forced to take weeks off school while recovering from his broken arm, and later instructed our firm to begin a no win no fee personal injury claim against the holiday resort on their child’s behalf. In correspondence with its insurers, we stated that lack of proper supervision of the trampolining activity was the primary cause of our client’s injury. By failing to follow the camp’s risk assessment procedure, the member of staff supervising the trampolining had failed to exercise the standard of care that a reasonably competent employee would have displayed in similar circumstances, and we argued that this amounted to negligence. Despite initially denying liability for the accident, we were eventually able to secure an admission of partial liability, and our client subsequently received £3,500 in compensation.
Child Injured in Fall From Climbing Frame
Bartletts Solicitors represented a six-year-old child who was injured after falling from a climbing frame during playtime at school. Due to the fact it was raining, the boy lost his grip on the wet bar he was holding onto, and fell onto the hard surface below, breaking his wrist in two places. The ground was covered with a plastic sheet to stop children from falling into the mud, as there were no rubber safety mats available to staff. The child spent the night in hospital where the broken bones in his wrist were reset and his forearm immobilised with a plaster cast. He ended up missing eight weeks of school and was in constant pain during that period, requiring assistance to carry out basic tasks like eating and washing himself. His parents decided to seek legal advice having heard that children had been injured falling from the same monkey bars at the school in the recent past.
The injured child’s parents instructed Bartletts to begin a no win no fee claim against the local authority with responsibility for safety standards at the school. We wrote to the council, outlining the circumstances of the incident, and arguing that it had breached its statutory duty by failing to provide safe or adequate flooring, such as rubber safety matting, underneath the climbing frame, a measure that would have minimised the possibility of a child falling and being injured. The absence of safety flooring represented a breach of the duty of care that the school and local authority owed the child, and this amounted to negligence. We recovered £3,250 on behalf of the injured boy, to be held in a court investment account until he reaches the age of 18.
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