Ski accidents and legal responsibility: The Spanish case
| Autor: | Luis Carús Ribalaygua |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Engineering Human Factors and Ergonomics High Court Civil procedure Computer security computer.software_genre Civil law (common law) Accident Prevention Skiing Criminal Law medicine Civil Rights Humans Legal responsibility Safety Risk Reliability and Quality Misdemeanor biology business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Liability Legal Euros biology.organism_classification United States Lawsuit Spain Law Damages business computer |
| Zdroj: | Accident Analysis & Prevention. 42:468-475 |
| ISSN: | 0001-4575 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.aap.2009.09.009 |
| Popis: | This study classifies and analyzes Spanish court rulings on responsibility for ski accidents 1 occurring within ski resort boundaries, and refers to court cases to propose guidelines aimed at assisting skiers and ski resort managers. Six main trends emerged from the study: (a) Spanish courts resolved lawsuits arising from four clearly identifiable categories of ski accidents. (b) Although lawsuits involving ski accidents were heard in both civil and criminal procedures, civil actions were more extensively brought than criminal ones. (c) The majority of the sentences ending legal proceedings resulted in acquittals, although the cost to defendants in the minority of cases where convictions were made exceeded one million euros in total. (d) No single lawsuit, either civil or criminal, was settled in a Court of First Instance; the vast majority were heard in Provincial Courts and only a small proportion reached the High Court. (e) The defendant was the ski resort operator in the great majority of cases. (f) Court decisions were consistently grounded only on the presence or otherwise of the factors necessary to prove either damages as a result of negligence, according to civil law, or misdemeanor or criminal injuries, in criminal lawsuits. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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