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Occupiers liability: - Coggle Diagram

- - - - A lawful visitor is owed a common duty of care while on the occupier’s land.
        If the visitor is injured by a workman’s negligent work, the occupier may have a defence and be able to pass the claim to the workman.
- - - - Premises have also been held to include:
        
        Ships in dry dock (London Graving Dock v Horton (1951)
        
        Vehicles (Hartwell v Grayson (1947);
        
        Lifts (Haseldine v Daw & Son Ltd (1941);
        
        Aircraft (Fosbroke-Hobbes v Airwork Ltd (1937);
        
        A ladder (Wheeler v Copas (1981)
- - - - Adult visitors
      - Person who has permission to enter the premises.
      - Invitees – persons who have been invited to enter and who have express permission to be there.
      - Licensees – persons who may have express or implied permission to be on the land for a particular period.
      - Those with contractual permission – bought a ticket for entry
      - Those given statutory right of entry – police exercising a warrant
- - - - Section 2(1) OLA 1957 states that an occupier of premises owes a common duty of care to those who visit the premises
      - Section 2(2) OLA 1957 defines the common duty of care as:
      - the duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is invited or permitted by the occupier to be there.