Whether north south superstore is liable in negligence


Assignment task: Natali regularly shops from a superstore called North South Superstore based in the suburb she lives in. She is there at least once a week and sometimes more often if the specials are too good to ignore. As her birthday is approaching in the coming month, she decides to have a party in her house and invite her close friends. To prepare for this event, she starts to stock different kinds of food items. She needs some frozen scallops to make one of her special dishes before the party. Frozen scallops are usually kept on the top shelf of the refrigerator with other seafood items in the back end of the store. Since Natali is only 150 cm tall she had to reach for the scallop packets. She held the door of the refrigerator open with her right hand and she reached up for the scallop packets with her left hand. After placing one packet in her trolley, she reached further back for another packet but unfortunately her hand hit a few broken bottles, causing her a nasty cut to her left hand. The constant bleeding from her hand caused her to faint. When she has been taken to the emergency department of the nearby hospital, the duty doctor has told that the cut has likely caused major damage to the nerves in her hand. The store was not sure how the broken bottles got there or how long they had been there. One sales assistant informs that recently an increased number of homeless people come to visit the store for help and sometimes hang around different parts of the store without much surveillance due to staff shortage in the store.

Question need to answer: Advise Natali whether North South Superstore is liable in negligence for her injury.

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