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Compensation Bill [HL]

The amendment does not say that an admission of guilt after saying sorry will be ignored. The example of running into the back of someone’s car is a bad one, because one may well then blurt on that one was listening to the Test match, or something idiotic like that. That is an admission of guilt. I am thinking more about someone, let us say, twisting his ankle on a step in a park somewhere and the owner of the park says, ““Oh, gosh, I am sorry””. This step is there, and there will be a huge issue about whether the owner of the park is liable for the step or for a pothole which has grown over a while. There are lots of instances where a little word of sorry may well sort out the matter where there is not really a huge liability issue. There is a huge difference between the two things.