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Liability Risk and Insurance

Lawyer fails in pavement slip claim

Making a claim for compensation isn’t as easy as it is sometimes cracked up to be. Try asking Gordon Jackson QC, a leading Scottish lawyer and Labour MSP. He sued Edinburgh City Council for £50,000 after he slipped on an icy pavement, claiming that it should have been gritted the day before his fall, in which he dislocated his shoulder.

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