Insurance and liability

The operator was asked for the current public-liability certificate covering camping on the field. None was produced by the close of fieldwork. It is possible that the Hall’s ordinary policy includes the field. It is also possible that camping is an unendorsed use. Audit could not tell. Employers’ liability does not arise if no one is employed. Occupiers’ liability remains.

• No copy certificate on the Authority’s licensing file.
• No indemnity toward the Authority (none would be expected unless a licence required it).
• No written warning to campers beyond the public pages (fires, cars, wet weeks, no warden after 8 p.m.). Those pages are not posted on the land.
• The step at the hall door, the unlit grass, and the loose stile are the identifiable physical hazards.
• Children and dogs are not the subject of additional rules.