The Supreme Court of Appeal SCA has dismissed Pick n Pays attempts to absolve itself from being liable for injuries sustained by a customer who fell while shopping.
The retailer had made an application to the SCA to appeal two court rulings which found the company liable for injuries sustained by Maria Williams after she slipped, fell and injured herself at a store in the N1 City Mall in Cape Town in November 2017.
It is alleged an oily substance had spilled on the floor which led to her slipping while she was walking to fetch an item from an aisle. As result of the fall, she suffered a soft tissue injury to her left hip and another near her left shoulder joint.
