£12,500 damages for man who broke arm in horse fall
A riding school has been ordered to pay damages to a pupil who was
thrown from his horse on an executive day out.
Read more from news.scotsman.com (21 November
2006) at http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1724642006
This
report originally appeared in the November & December 2006 Riding Safely News Digest.
The same report was posted to the Horse & Hound Forum and has been one of the hottest subjects ever debated with
over 3000 views and over 100 replies. Equestrian opinion was split over
both the scale of the payout and the surrounding circumstances.