An occupier's duty of care to keep access ways clean and free of hazards is not diminished by the entrant's status as a skilled tradesman where the skill has no relation to the use of the means of access. The development of personal responsibility in negligence law has not produced a rule that occupiers are only liable for concealed dangers or that observable hazards can be left to entrants. It remains the law that allowance must be made for inadvertence and that an occupier owes a duty of care even to careless entrants.
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