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Dog Owner not liable for injury caused after he unleashed his dogThe Court of Appeal have recently held that, when considering cases where dogs have injured a person, they have to be satisfied that a reasonable person in the dog owner's position would think that the injury caused by the dog was likely to follow from what he does or what he does not do. In the case of Whippey v. Jones, CA, 8/4/09 the dog handler was not liable because it was not unreasonable to unleash the dog when he did. It is not enough that the injury was a possibility, it has to be likely to happen.
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