Damages ruling offers charities reassurance

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 26 June 2008

Charities that are worried about frivolous and excessive damages claims should be reassured by the failure of a man to sue the charity that owns a climbing wall he fell from, according to a firm of charity insurers.

The man sustained serious injuries after climbing without a rope in an activity centre owned by the Portsmouth Youth Activities Committee. The appeal court judge said the man, who was a novice climber, had undertaken an obviously risky manoeuvre and that the charity had not been required to warn him...