Injuries sustained as a result of product defect

Faisal v Younis (t/a Safa Superstore) & Active Brands Concept Ltd [2018] EWHC 1111 (QB)

In a tragic case in which a two-year-old child, accompanying his mother to a convenience store, had been able to open a bottle of caustic soda and ingest some of, it was held that a recorder had been entitled to apportion liability for the incident on the basis that the manufacturer should bear two-thirds and the shopkeeper one-third of the responsibility.