Supreme Court says pedestrians must prepare for icy pavements

Pedestrians must prepare for icy conditions on pavements or else cannot expect compensation for damages, the Supreme Court has ruled. In a legal opinion released in order to unify judicial practices regarding compensation, the court said that pedestrians can only sue for damages incurred under conditions they could not have expected or prepared for. The statement does not, it said, relieve the owner of a pavement of their duty to upkeep it. The responsibility for maintaining municipal pavements was shifted from building owners to local town halls last winter.