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#1 Posted : 07 February 2008 10:49:00(UTC)
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Posted By Sally Thought this was interesting. A piece of case law on the side of voluntarily accepting risk and proving that sometimes no-one is to blame. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/...rgh_and_east/7232182.stm Perhaps not much relevance to work but certainly for other types of event.
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#2 Posted : 07 February 2008 12:25:00(UTC)
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Posted By Ron Hunter "Volenti non fit injuria" (to a willing person, no injury is done) Is a well established common law doctrine. Lots of info. via Google if you search the latin term.
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