No liability under s2(2) of the Animals Act 1972

Schoultz v Ball and Others [2022] EWHC 2452 (KB)

A judge sitting in the King’s Bench Division of the High Court has found that the owner of a horse, which had collided with a taxi in which the claimant had been travelling as a passenger on the southbound carriageway of the A3, was not liable under s2(2) of the Animals Act 1971 for the injuries sustained in the collision by the claimant. There was no evidence to support the claimant’s assertion that the likelihood of the damage to the claimant, or of its being severe, had been due to the characteristics of the horse, which were not normally found in horses, except at particular times or in particular circumstances.