Clause 2 - Statements of Inherent Risk
Promotion of Volunteering Bill
3:15 pm
Mr Julian Brazier (Shadow Minister, International Affairs; Canterbury, Conservative)
I could try to sidestep the point by saying that we have the problems of all the organisations that do not have specific governing bodies, but there is a more central point. Given the kind of court rulings that we have had, such as that unbelievable yachting case in which there was an absolute willingness by the court to ignore what anybody who has ever been involved in sailing understands, the legal advice that I have received is that we will not achieve anything without some effort to tell the court that we are restoring the bar for negligence to a higher level.