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Compensation Bill [HL]

This amendment looks extremely sensible. If someone willingly accepts a risk, that is it. He or she has accepted the risk. I take into account the fact that parents probably need to assess when accepting a risk on behalf of a child that the teacher is capable. Once you have accepted the risk, you should be allowed to get on with it and take it. This amendment helps to clarify that. As regards paragraph (b), if a person trespasses on land and gets into trouble, holding the owner or occupier of that land liable is totally unreasonable. How on earth can you predict what some idiot will do once they come on to land when they are not meant to? It might be quite a useful defence to have in general.