Man loses compensation fight
It has been revealed that a man has lost his accident claim battle, after he received horrific burn personal injury.
The man, from Teeside, received his injuries after trespassing on an electrical substation.
In 2001, the victim 15 at the time, climbed over the services fence to retrieve a football but suffered an electrical shock, burns and the loss of a limb.
He therefore filed a compensation claim, alleging that the Northern firm should have done more to stop people from trying to access the dangerous electricity station.
However, a panel of judges did not sympathise with the man’s case and ruled that the company did all it can to protect the public from harm, and thus denied his claim.
Lord Justice Wilson, who sat on the case, stated: “No amount of security measures will keep out a sufficiently determined trespasser.
“Entry by the means adopted in the present case was not foreseeable and it was for that reason not reasonably practicable for the defendants to take further steps in relation to its wall.”
Updated on 08/03/2010