High Court judge Mr Justice Field said in 2010 that risk assessments were inadequate but the game was reasonably safe and there was no breach of a duty of care.

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In a statement, Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust said it did not admit liability in this case and did not believe there had been a breach of duty of care to Mr Nash.

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However, in one case the judges ordered a subsidiary, Shell Nigeria, to compensate a farmer for breach of duty of care by making it too easy for saboteurs to open an oil well head that leaked on to his land.

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It was originally dismissed in 2010 by a High Court judge who said risk assessments were inadequate but the game was reasonably safe and there was no breach of a duty of care.

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