CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE IN ROAD TRAFFIC CASES: DO ALL ROADS LEAD TO FROOM? WEBINAR 19th NOVEMBER 2025

Issues relating to contributory negligence often play a large part in road traffic cases.  This webinar looks at the case law and guidance in relation to the key issues that often arise.

Booking details are available here.

(A failure to wear a seatbelt does not automatically lead to a finding of contributory negligence.  Find out why in this webinar).

“Negligence depends on a breach of duty, whereas contributory negligence does not. Negligence is a man’s carelessness and breach of duty to others. Contributory negligence is a man’s carelessness in looking after his own safety. He is guilty of contributory negligence if he ought reasonably to have foreseen that, if he did not act as a reasonable prudent man, he might hurt himself.”

Froom v Butcher [1976] Q.B. 286 at 291, Lord Denning M.R.

ISSUES TO BE COVERED

• Failure to wear seat belts
• Failure to wear motorcycle or cycle helmets.
• Causation issues and contributory negligence.
• Contributory negligence and passengers.
• Contributory negligence in collisions.
• Contributory negligence and pedestrians.
• Contributory negligence and children.
• “Causative potency”.

The webinar also looks at allegations of negligence made against parents when a child passenger is not properly restrained, or where it is alleged the parent should have taken more care in the fitting of a child restraint.