Compensation Bill [HL]

I would just like to come back to the general question of how we enable people to make it clear that anything someone does is at that person’s own risk. There is no way a marshal can restrain someone from going in. Have they always got to say ““No””, or are they allowed to assume that a person will act responsibly? This seems to me to be a typical case. As we said the last time we discussed this, where you are dealing with adults and where the adult can take a reasonable view of the risks involved, and there is not some hidden danger that they do not know of that would require them to be prevented from undertaking something, it should be absolutely clear that if someone proceeds at their own risk that is a reasonable thing for a person in charge of an event to allow. I just do not know how it can be done, and if the noble Baroness has any views on that I would love to hear them.