Not the case, according to Norfolk County Council:
"Residents and businesses can help improve local footways by sweeping the snow outside their home or business into the gutter before it compacts into ice, and using any nearby grit bins.
"If you do decide to do this, you wouldn't be liable if an accident happened outside your property unless it was proved that you didn't take reasonable care. For instance you wouldn't be liable if you only partially cleared the snow (given that you have no duty to do it at all) but only if you made the situation worse e.g. by pouring hot water on the snow, which then freezes."
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So in fact you could be liable under certain conditions.
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The system they had in Germany ( lived and worked there for a number of years)is that you had to take out your own personal insurance for things like this. so we used to clear out side our home and if anyone slipped they claimed on their own insurance. It also stopped all these other claims against others for personal accidents. If you did not claim the premium was less than £10 a year. One of the few good things about Germany.
When we had the last lot of snow. we walked to our village post office. One person had cleared the snow from their drive across the verge. It had frozen and was the most difficult part to walk on. They had in fact made it easy to get the car out but worse for walkers. So from what NCC says we could take action against them if we slipped as they had made it worse not better. Would that be correct
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