Vixen Tor Inquiry (16 Jan 2006)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Court Cases | No Comments »On the 24th February, 2005, the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) lost, its attempt at gaining access to the private land on which stands Vixen Tor (the sitiuation remains unresolved until, the BMC gets it's way) a small granite outcrop on ...
Guiding Blight… (12 Oct 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Court Cases | No Comments »Guiding Blight:Â Was the title of a 'letter' published in the Daily Mail the 29 September, 2003 a school teacher, Paul Ellis who apparently ignored bad weather warnings has been sent to prison for a year (Daily Mail 26/09/03) and ...
Alpine Mountaineering Pay-up (26 Sep 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Court Cases | 1 Comment »The family of Michael Matthews, 22, who in 1999 became the youngest Briton to climb Everest has finally been awarded £70,000 damages for his death (they had waited four years due to a wall-of-silence) while using faulty oxygen equipment during ...
UIAGM guide in court over 11 deaths (26 May 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Court Cases | No Comments »So wrote The Guardian on the 14 January, 2000: 'A French court gave a mountain guide a - suspended two-years prison sentence yesterday over the deaths in an avalanche of nine French teenagers and two adults during an excursion in ...
Everest Circus Spins Out of Control (18 Apr 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Court Cases | No Comments »According to the website http://www.mounteverest.net/news/newspages/todd1040103.htm Mount Everest News, on the 4 April, 2003: ´´Everest's most dangerous person, Henry Todd.', Mountain guide and member of IGO 8000. Mount Everest News went on: 'A spokesperson for IGO 8000 (the organisation at the ...
Family Launches Lawsuit Over Everest Death (23 Jan 2007)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Court Cases | No Comments »The Sunday Times, June 2, 2002: 'The family of the youngest Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest is suing the firm that organised the climb, claiming that he died during his descent through the companies negligence. Michael Matthews, ...
Common Sense
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Court Cases | Comments OffA Triumph for Common Sense? http://www.mountaineering-scotland.org.uk/pitch-in/helmets.html 'A Triumph for Common Sense', so wrote Steven Venables in a specialist magazine after Peter Pope, a client of the Asscoiation of British Mountain Guides (BMG), specifically, David (cubby) Cuthbertson, was allowed to place ...
Pope v Cuthbertson
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Court Cases | Comments OffIn this case Judge Diana Cotton QC dismissed all negligence claims against British Mountain Guide David 'Cubby' Cuthbertson. "A civil case in the High Court (1994) has established an important precedent relating to climbers and responsibility, duty of care and liability". ...
Tour Ronde - Hedley v Cuthbertson
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Court Cases | No Comments »Hedley v Cuthbertson - North Face of the Tour Ronde, July 1990 On June 20 1997, a Judge found against (BMG) guide Dave 'Smiler' Cuthbertson in a negligence case brought against him by six year old Daniel Woodroofe Hedley. The ...
The Cuthbertson v Hedley Court-Case 1997.
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Court Cases | No Comments »In July 1997, most major newspapers carried, finally, the story of the Cuthberton v Hedley court-case. The judge found in favour of Mrs Hedley and her young son awarding them (her son never knew his father) £200,000 in compensation. Her ...
