occupiers liability-14

Question 1

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Answer 1

• The duties owed by occupiers’ to visitors and non-visitors entering their land have been codified by the Occupiers’ Liability Act (OLA) 1957 and the Occupiers Liability Act (OLA) 1984 respectively.
• The Occupiers’ Liability Acts are often described as negligence in statutory form.

Question 2

 Section 2(1) of the OLA 1957:

Answer 2

‘An occupier owes the same duty, the “common duty of care”, to all his visitors, except in so far as he is free to and does extend, restrict, modify or exclude his duty to any visitor or visitors by agreement or otherwise’.
 Visitors – people you have invited onto your land-protection to visitors under 57 act
 Trespassers= OLA 1984
 This duty applies to personal injury and property damage.