A woman is claiming personal injury damages after falling in the Marks & Spencer store in Douglas.

Jacqueline Karen Fergusson submitted her claim in January this year following an incident on October 5, 2015 when she slipped and fell in the store.

Her claim states that she had entered the shop from Market Street and walked down the slope onto the shop floor and thoroughfare.

While she began to walk past the racks of greeting cards towards the trolley basket collection point, she ’slipped upon water or upon some other wet, moist or slippery substance upon the floor, or slippery surface of the floor, lost her footing and jerked backwards’.

But M&S was unhappy with the level of detail in her claim and asked for clarification on what she was specifically alleging to have caused her foot to slip.

The claimant’s advocate replied that their client ’did not observe the state of the floor prior to her foot slipping from beneath her’ - and so could not specifically provide details of what caused her foot to slip.

M&S claimed she had not provided details of a valid cause of action.

In April lawyers for the retail giant applied to the high court to have the claim struck out or be subject to summary judgment.

And then in August they applied for Ms Fergusson to amend her claim so as to be more specific as to the nature of the cause of action alleged.

But Deemster John Needham dismissed both applications.

He said: ’I am satisfied there are sufficient facts in the particulars of claim to establish the existence of an arguable cause of action in negligence or breach of statutory duty. Clearly the precise circumstances of what happened will need to be the subject of evidence at trial.’