Music Industry Lawyer and Senior Lecturer in Law, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Since the death of nine young music fans at the Roskilde Festival in 2000, the industry could not have faced a more challenging year than 2003. The tragic deaths of twenty one clubbers in Chicago on the 17th February was followed within a week by the extraordinary scenes at the Station Club in Rhode Island when pyrotechnics ignited by the band Great White set fire to the sound-proofed interior of the club leaving hundreds of people dead and injured, including one member of the band. In July suicide bombers killed sixteen young people at the Krylya Festival in Moscow. In September a UK court awarded the highest ever level of damages for a performers injury; trapeze artist Suzy Barton fell twenty foot from a hot air balloon at the London Millennium Dome after her safety harness failed and received £510,000 for serious injuries. In the same
