Employment law cases

Jacobs v LCC [1950] AC 361 HL

Reports relating to this case:

  • Jacobs v LCC

    Date:
    31 December 1950

    In Jacobs v LCC [1950] AC 361 HL, the House of Lords held that a woman who had been injured as a result of tripping on a protruding water supply stopcock on council property had been a licensee not an invitee and that the cause of the trip did not amount to a public nuisance adjoining the highway.