A 12 year old boy who suffered life threatening injuries after a fall whilst walking on the West Highland Way has lost a damages claim for £250,000 against the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. Lawyers acting for Michael Leonard – who is now aged 20 – had claimed that the park authority had not done enough to make the path safe to walk on – including by failing to provide a handrail. The claim was that ‘where the path turned sharply to its left on its final descent to the road he had tripped or lost his footing…