An accountant has launched a High Court damages action for more than £300,000 claiming his business suffered after he slipped on a grape in a Marks & Spencer store and hurt his leg.
His action, before deputy judge John Leighton Williams QC, is being contested by the retail giant.
Alexander Martin-Sklan, from Barnet, Herts, who charges £225 an hour for his accounting services, says he ruptured his quadricep tendon in the fall and subsequently suffered a loss of ‘confidence’ and depression following his injury, which meant he was unable to recruit new clients and contacts, The Times reports.
During his cross-examination, James Aldridge for M&S said : ‘Sometimes unfortunate accidents do happen without anybody being at fault. Isn’t this just one of those occasions, because you happened to slip as you were exiting the supermarket, as sometimes people do?'
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