Sorry AS but there is an obligation to ensure the saftey of anyone visiting your premises.

tinyurl.com/6oytcco

Note the mention of The Occupiers Liability Act 1957.

More nonsense. The obligation applies to public places, your house is not a public place, nor is your garden. Thats why schools shut in the snow but posties still go out, for example.

If you were to put barbed on your driveway, or electrify your gate or keep a rabid doberman at your front door then that's different.

Its also good to stress that 'you could be sued for...' means nothing. People can try and sue for whatever they want but it doesnt mean they're going to win. People sue for all sorts of nonsense, they dont win.

Edited by jamie745 on 05/02/2012 at 16:55

I have read the above posts and had a perfect example this morning of why clearing paths CAN be a bad idea. I crunched and squleched my way thru uncleared snow on roads and pavements on my way to my village shop and all was well, I crossed the road onto a stretch of slightly sloping cleared pavement and fell over because it was wet and had frozen = black ice. Better to walk on an uncleared surface than an icy clear one!

Anytime someone gives a link to any Government site i get bored within 3 seconds and stop reading.

Look, i work in a building with a few legal professionals who have got people out of the most outrageous motoring offence charges and they all say the oft-spouted 'if you clear your path they'll sue you!!' is total nonsense.

If they say its nonsense, then its nonsense. Thats good enough for me.

You have mis-read me DVD I think. I made safe progress on uncleared road and pavements and I slipped and fell on a fully cleared stretch of pavement which was covered with black ice. Melt***er which had flowed across the pavement and frozen in the night.

Sounds like the neighbour is due for a good ear bashing!!!!