OCCUPIERS’ LIABILITY - Duty of occupier - To invitees - Knowledge of danger - Duty to warn - To warn of danger

Law360 Canada (July 18, 2023, 6:04 AM EDT) -- Action by plaintiff for damages against the defendant. Plaintiff Ramos was injured when he tripped and fell on a low concrete ramp leading to a maintenance shed in the passenger interchange area at the Port Coquitlam transit station. Plaintiff testified that he tripped on a hidden hazard while walking toward his bus stop. Photographs taken on the day of, or very shortly after, the incident showed that the height of the grass was uneven along the edge of the ramp over which plaintiff tripped. Photographs taken on an unknown date following the incident showed the intersection of the grass with the ramp after the grass had been cut to a uniform height. The edge of the ramp was more visible in these photographs....
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