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Peak $th is a large m situatedat the top of Mountain Roadin central Auckland and owned by Frida: with both an eatin and a takeout

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Peak $th is a large m situatedat the top of Mountain Roadin central Auckland and owned by Frida: with both an eatin and a takeout menu: including providing deliveries to customers in the local area. The eatin area includes an inside room andan outside courtyard. Dne Friday Frida is having a very busy afternoon. She delivers a coffee and mufn to a customer who has opened her large laptop on the age table. Frida asks the customer if she would like to move to another table as the customer's current table is small and slightly unstable. The customer tells Frida she is happy with her current table. Shortly thereafter M hears a disturbance m the outside tables and rushes out to nd the customer has fallen o' her chair andin doing so has broken her expensive laptop computer. The customer tells Frida that she was immersed in her work when she was suddenly startled by a pigeon landing on the table very close to her looking for scraps of food to eat. The customer lurched backwards and both the chair and table fell over and the laptop smashed on the ground. The customer wants Frida to pay for the laptop. Pigeons do roost on many of the nearby buildings= are constantly looking for food and do disturb the customers. The waiters oen shoo them away. However: Frida does wonder if the customer can actually sue for the broken laptop. The same busy FridayWneeds some orders delivered urgently. She tells Alexander= one of her waiters: to take her car and make a delivery to a customer two Waway. Alexander delivers the food successfully= but it takes him some time in the busy trafc and when he returns the car to Frida's W outside the cafe he is in a hurry to get back to report to Frida. Unfortunately: in his haste he forgets to apply the car' s handbrake or to leave itin gear. Soon after he exits the car it rolls down the slope= onto Mountain Road= deects off a lamp post {which is fortunately undamaged) and eventually hits a motorbike= owned by Lee ata distance of 100 W om the Ef- Lee suffers a broken ankle which requires medical treatment and his motorbike is destroyed. Frida wonders if she can be held liable for the costs arising from this accident. Required: Advise whether the customer can successfully claim against Frida in tort for her losses and also advise whether Lee can successfully claim in tort against Alexander and for Mfor Lee's injury and losses

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