Some of the most interesting tort cases are at bottom factual determinations, but none the less important for that. Does anyone share my misgivings at Whipple J's determination today on appeal that a parent who holds a child's birthday party at a crazy golf course should find herself personally liable to a child hit in the eye by a golf club because she didn't specifically instruct her child not to swing?  Seems to me that it adds new terrors to parenthood, especially uninsured parenthood.

See The Bosworth Water Trust v SSR & Ors [2018] EWHC 444 (QB)

Andrew
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