Judge Refuses To Award Compensation To Burglar

[hc4361]

This young man was dreadfully injured when he jumped on a skylight and subsequently fell through it but I think the judge made the right decision here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038306/Family-burglar-fell-skylight-fail-bid-sue-council.html

Do you think this could be the beginning of the end of the so-called compensation culture? It appears the family did not use a 'no win, no fee' firm and have to foot the bill themselves.

[lindapalmara]

You couldn't make it up!!

[atalanta]

If he had died, the coroner's verdict would surely have been "misadventure". Which usually seems to mean "it was your own stupid fault". However, there was a very similar case in the US a few decades ago, where the householder was held liable for injuries to a burglar who fell through a glass roof, on the grounds that the householder ought to have foreseen that a burglar might attempt that route in a break-in.
Anyway, whatever happened to "volenti non fit injuria " ?