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Court of Appeal dismisses appeal from High Court, and affirms dismissal of personal injuries action arising from a trip and fall in a caravan park causing an injury to the visitor's arm, on the grounds that the trial judge had been entitled to find that evidence as to the actual locus of the fall was too vague, and that a 'certain unevenness of the surface' was to be expected in a caravan park in a naturalistic setting.
Trip and fall - mobile home - caravan park - injury to arm - dismissal of claim in High Court - s. 3 of the Occupiers Liability Act, 1995 - whether a breach of duty of care by occupier - state of ground between mobile home and toilet / shower block - sewage and water pipes installed in trench - back filling of trench - top soil - grass - whether a 'hazard' - care to be taken by visitor for her own safety - engineering evidence - role of appellate court - whether findings of fact were supported by credible evidence.
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