Wheat v Lacon, [1966] 1 ALL ER 582
Citation:Wheat v Lacon, [1966] 1 ALL ER 582
Rule of thumb:Who is deemed to be the occupier of land? It is the person with the power to determine who is allowed to enter – as a general rule the person with the key will be deemed to be an occupier.
Ratio-decidendi:
‘Wherever a person has a sufficient degree of control over premises that he ought to realise that any failure on his part to use care may result in an injury to a person coming lawfully there, then he is an occupier’, at 593.
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