{"id":14206,"date":"2013-11-07T19:16:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2013-11-07T19:16:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T19:16:51","slug":"wall-accident-compensation-claims-injury-lawyers-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2013\/11\/07\/wall-accident-compensation-claims-injury-lawyers-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Accident Compensation Claims &#8211; Injury Lawyers Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cracked-wall-injury-claims-300x239.png\" alt=\"cracked wall injury claims\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14213\" \/>Walls &#8211; as a principle, they&#8217;re there to protect us from danger. But if they are not safe, they can quickly become a danger. Common examples of accident claims involving walls could be as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A piece of a wall falls off and hits you \/ a wall collapses on you.<\/li>\n<li>A low wall you are sitting on collapses or breaks beneath you.<\/li>\n<li>A wall is dangerously low causing a trip and \/ or fall over it.<\/li>\n<li>A wall you are leaning on collapses or breaks, causing an accident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So if any of the above happens to you, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Normally this will fall within the scope of the <strong>Occupiers Liability Act<\/strong>, whether it&#8217;s a wall owned privately by a person or a company, or whether its public land. There isn&#8217;t necessarily a duty to inspect walls, as you&#8217;d probably expect them to be alright. But there is a duty to ensure no-one is injured by them, so there is a duty to maintain them.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you have a claim will probably come down to whether whoever is in charge of the wall had, or ought to have had, reasonable knowledge that the wall could be a danger. Examples of this could be as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone reports that a wall looks damage or unstable and nothing is done about it.<\/li>\n<li>Employees of a company walk past a wall everyday and would likely spot a problem if it was noticeable &#8211; but haven&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>A landlord or agency inspecting a house in general that is rented should probably ensure that the house is in a stable condition.<\/li>\n<li>If there has been some kind of problem like a leak or a crash where the wall was involved, and its structure could therefore have been compromised, an inspection ought to take place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thankfully it&#8217;s kind of rare for people to be injured by walls unless something like a crash happens where it&#8217;s likely that the wall could have become dangerous. But if nothing is done when they knew, or ought to have known, of a potential danger, that&#8217;s when you may have a winning claim for personal injury compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walls &#8211; as a principle, they&#8217;re there to protect us from danger. But if they are not safe, they can quickly become a danger. Common examples of accident claims involving walls could be as follows: A piece of a wall falls off and hits you \/ a wall collapses on you. 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