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Think back to your younger days. Did you play dangerous games? Chase friends across a playground? Throw stones? Indulge in play-fights? Can you imagine legal disputes arising from any of those situations? The case of Mullin v Richards (1998) shows what happens when English common law meets the law of the playground.
Here, two 15-year-old schoolgirls (Teresa Mullin and Heidi Richards) were play-fighting with plastic rulers at school when one of the rulers snapped and a sharp piece of plastic from the snapped ruler hit Mullin in her right eye. As a result, she was blinded in that eye.
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