Car damaged in community centre car park?

Jp1506 · 23-07-2019 05:28PM #1

I'm doing a back to work scheme in a community centre and the boot of my car was dented yesterday. One of the people in charge in the centre said she checked the cameras but couldn't see who was responsible. There is signs up saying 'cars parked at owners risk' and 'this community centre takes no responsibility for any loss or damage' but I'm really not happy to just leave it and forget about it. Is there anything else that I can do in this situation?

nuac · 23-07-2019 06:38PM

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You can talk to your solicitor.
Will leave open for general discussion subject to forum rule on legal advice

Jp1506 · 23-07-2019 08:40PM

nuac wrote: »

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You can talk to your solicitor.
Will leave open for general discussion subject to forum rule on legal advice

Sorry I thought because there was a 'legal discussion' topic I could get some opinions.

Peregrinus · 24-07-2019 01:31AM

There's not a lot you can do. There's no general rule that the occupier of premises is liable for any damage that occurs on the premises to anyone, or to anyone's property. You'd have to point to some duty of care owed to you that the occupier has violated. If your car was damaged because, e.g., a slate on the roof fell off and hit it, you would have a case. Or if the carpark was designed in an unsafe way that increased the risk of accident and injury, just possibly. But simply because another user of the carpark was careless, not so much.

Your first issue here is that you need to show how the damage occurred. Odds are it was another driver, but (from what's in the OP) you don't actually know that. And, having established how the damage occurred, you then need to show that the damage wouldn't have occurred if the occupier of the premises had discharged its duties to you properly. And, again, there's nothing in the OP to suggest that.

Car damaged in community centre car park?

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