Comments on: UK: too dangerous to let townswomen tend flowers around war memorial https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/07/uk-too-dangerous-to-let-townswomen-tend-flowers-around-war-memorial/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sam T https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/07/uk-too-dangerous-to-let-townswomen-tend-flowers-around-war-memorial/comment-page-1/#comment-123912 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:07:00 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=23798#comment-123912 @DensityDuck: Couldn’t the Women’s Institute just do it anyway? Sounds like the council would be safe since it’s warned and the Women’s Institute would get to volunteer.

]]> By: John David Galt https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/07/uk-too-dangerous-to-let-townswomen-tend-flowers-around-war-memorial/comment-page-1/#comment-123910 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:20:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=23798#comment-123910 Apparently you don’t understand the roundabout. Pedestrians do not normally cross to the island at any time; they are directed to go around the outside to reach other streets.

]]> By: John Burgess https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/07/uk-too-dangerous-to-let-townswomen-tend-flowers-around-war-memorial/comment-page-1/#comment-123908 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:42:55 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=23798#comment-123908 @DensityDuck: Clearly, then, the answer to is have the land revert to the people and taken out of government control.

Bring back the Commons!

]]> By: DensityDuck https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/07/uk-too-dangerous-to-let-townswomen-tend-flowers-around-war-memorial/comment-page-1/#comment-123900 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:54:20 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=23798#comment-123900 I expect that the issue is not that it’s dangerous, but that if these people are on council-managed property engaged in council-ordered business and one of them gets hurt, then the council is legally liable for the injury.

]]> By: Bob Lipton https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/07/uk-too-dangerous-to-let-townswomen-tend-flowers-around-war-memorial/comment-page-1/#comment-123880 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:21:13 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=23798#comment-123880 Apparently the city council has mistaken women for a flock of chickens.

Bob

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