A Sydney woman awarded $151,000 after slipping on a grape in a Woolworths supermarket has lost her case on appeal. Colleen McQuillan had successfully sued the supermarket giant after falling over in the fruit and vegetable section of the Leichhardt store in November 2012. But the NSW court of appeal on Monday upheld Woolworths’ appeal and dismissed McQuillan’s claim, finding the company had not been negligent over the grape, which the three judges said had been of an unknown colour. Woolworths says technical glitch caused customers to be charged twice Read moreIn their judgment, the three appeal judges said McQuillan had slipped on the grape and fallen soon after the supermarket opened at 10am on Sunday 25 November 2012. “His Honour found that if someone had been on duty in the produce section they would have identified the risk, based on the training given and the warning signs to be on the lookout for grapes on the floor,” the appeal judges said.

Source: The Guardian August 14, 2017 07:18 UTC