I would have said that a ped stepping off the footpath into the path of a cycle, without looking, is exactly the same as doing it with a motorcycle, a car, van, bus or truck.
Pretty sure it is. You’re traffic. Pedestrians have right of way if they’ve started to cross when you turn into a road; at other times, neither has one ROW over the other.
If someone stepped out in the road without looking and you failed to attempt to stop / evade it’d be 50:50 fault. If you’d done everything you could to avoid a collision after they’d dived in front of you, it’d be theirs. If you just hadn’t seen them and mowed them down when they were crossing normally, it’d be yours. Probably. Responsibility falls to both parties.
I think.
If the incident occurred on a footpath, then I would say it’s clearly the cyclists fault.
Well, you’d be riding illegally. Again, what if you were driving on the pavement?
It becomes hazy when it’s a shared-use path
THC says about shared use,
Take care when passing pedestrians, especially children, older or disabled people, and allow them plenty of room.
… which implies perhaps that you are expected to give way to pedestrians, but they don’t have ROW absolute (any more than you do).