article_snippet.sent: TaxPayers’ Alliance spokesman Jonathan Isaby welcomed the court’s ruling, saying: ‘
article_snippet.sent: TaxPayers’ Alliance spokesman Jonathan Isaby’s good to know that despite our ever-creeping compensation culture it is still possible for vexatious cases like these to be thrown out.
article_snippet.sent: the family sued the council under the Occupiers Liability Act 1984, which covers the duty of care owed by a landowner or occupier of premises to persons on site
article_snippet.sent: ‘other than the family visitors’, who suffered injury as a result of the ‘state of the premises’.
article_snippet.sent: Lawyers argued the council had ignored a long-term problem of trespassing at the site during weekends and holidays.
article_snippet.sent: the council defended the council decision to pursue the legal challenge to court.
article_snippet.sent: Chief executive John Tradewell said that defending the case was ‘about fairness to the taxpayer’.
highlights_snippet.sent: Family sued county council saying Family should have protected the building .
  