A local authority that owns and operates a sporting facility and encourages its use by multiple sporting groups owes a duty to take reasonable measures to prevent dangerous simultaneous use. Knowledge of danger alone is insufficient to establish voluntary assumption of risk — the defendant must prove the plaintiff accepted the risk would materialise. Momentary inattention in the face of an obvious and extreme danger may constitute negligence rather than mere inadvertence.
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