Looking for a simple waiver to allow friend to ride?

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I am two horses and am 6 months pregnant, so would like a girl I have met locally to be able to ride my boys while I have the baby etc.

I have searched high and low online for a simple release form which just protects us both - her if anything happens to one of my horses while she is riding (which I accept is par for the course) and me if she has an accident whilst riding or handling the horses.

I can't believe this sort of document isn't more readily available online.

I have looked at the BHS loan agreement but so little of it is relevant that I haven't been able to use it.

Does anyone have anything I could use as a template? Or know a lawyer with some equine knowledge who might be able to put one together?

Thanks so much
 
They are not available as they are not enforceable in English law if what ever happens is through negligence no waiver will stop the consequences.
 
Ensure they have rider insurance and that your horses have insurance before a ride. Horses are unpredictable, as are circumstances in which riders get hurt. Just both have your own insurance.
 
I've just had a few lectures on negligence in my Law module at uni, I'm doing Accounting so it was only very brief as it's not that applicable BUT when looking at the tort of negligence, if a person willingly accepts the risk prior to the act, then the assumption is that they have waived all rights to legal redress and cannot claim damages if something goes wrong. Now I'm definitely no expert but it's worth reading into, google 'volenti non fit injury'.
 
A recent court case demonstrated that the owner of a horse is responsible for any accident it causes whether it is their fault or not and that horse owners should have third party public liability cover to no less than £10,000,000 (Ten million pounds) per horse.

Animals act 1971 Section 2 (2) as now interpreted by the highest court in the land says that animal owners are liable. This is as a result of the Mirvahedy v Henley case

There, the law lords held that under section 2(2)(b) of the 1971 Act the keeper of a non-dangerous animal was strictly liable for damage or injury caused by it while it was behaving in a way that, although not normal behaviour generally for animals of that species, was nevertheless normal behaviour for the species in the particular circumstances, such as a horse bolting when sufficiently alarmed; and that, since the accident to the claimant had been caused by the defendants' horses behaving in an unusual way caused by their panic, they were liable to him.
 
PeterNatt said:
A recent court case demonstrated that the owner of a horse is responsible for any accident it causes whether it is their fault or not and that horse owners should have third party public liability cover to no less than £10,000,000 (Ten million pounds) per horse.

Animals act 1971 Section 2 (2) as now interpreted by the highest court in the land says that animal owners are liable. This is as a result of the Mirvahedy v Henley case

There, the law lords held that under section 2(2)(b) of the 1971 Act the keeper of a non-dangerous animal was strictly liable for damage or injury caused by it while it was behaving in a way that, although not normal behaviour generally for animals of that species, was nevertheless normal behaviour for the species in the particular circumstances, such as a horse bolting when sufficiently alarmed; and that, since the accident to the claimant had been caused by the defendants' horses behaving in an unusual way caused by their panic, they were liable to him.
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That was a case where the injured party was a driven not someone who assumed the risk by getting on their friends horse .
However no waiver OP will protect you from being sued for negilence .
But it could be used to prove that the person riding knew ridng was dangerous and accepted the risk because believe it or not people have tried to sue saying they did not know you could hurt yourself falling from a horse etc etc .
 
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