Homeless spikes

JonJones

I am curious as to legal implications in this story

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/selfridges-installs-inhumane-anti-homeless-spikes-outside-manchester-store-10049442.html

What would happen if someone, or a child, waking down the street slipped and hurt themselves on the spikes? Would they have a case?

MarkAnthony

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1995/act/10/enacted/en/html

Additional reading

L1011

They look unlikely to cause serious injury even if fallen on (not that I want to volunteer to test!)

Defensive architecture - to stop skateboarding, loitering, rough sleeping etc - is increasingly common and some is quite harsh and damaging to navigation so I expect we will see some injury cases at some point

JonJones

L1011 wrote: »

They look unlikely to cause serious injury even if fallen on (not that I want to volunteer to test!)

Defensive architecture - to stop skateboarding, loitering, rough sleeping etc - is increasingly common and some is quite harsh and damaging to navigation so I expect we will see some injury cases at some point

a child slips and hit them with his head...

MarkAnthony

JonJones wrote: »

a child slips and hit them with his head...

No worse (in fact probably better) than hitting a sharp corner of a step. I'm sure there have probably been actions on that basis but it's not exactly a daily occurrence.

Atlantic Dawn

Plenty of buildings in Dublin with similar.