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Property and liability are important! (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by hamid to c/[email protected]

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[+] Aux -11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well, jokes aside, property owners have a responsibility for the well being of anyone on their property in the UK. A lousy contractor without insurance falls from the ladder and snaps their neck? Off you go to jail!

[–] Mango 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sounds to me like the UK is either stupid or corrupt.

[–] Aux 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

UK has very old laws. Some of them are like a thousand years old. It never had a revolution, so a lot of dumb shit got stuck. For example, if your house is near a church then you must pay the church for their building maintenance, lol.

[–] Mango 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When there's nothing a country can do about pieces of paper written on a thousand years ago, the legislative process is pretty well invalid.

[–] Aux 1 points 7 months ago

Well yeah, but we have free medicine, worker rights, paid holidays and other things Americans call communism.

[–] kameecoding -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't believe that for a second

[–] Aux -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to believe, you can check the law.https://www.claims.co.uk/knowledge-base/land-law/occupiers-liability

[–] kameecoding 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bro your own link contradicts you

Workmen (s 2(3)(b))

When a person is in the exercise of his trade at a premises (eg, an electrician), that person will appreciate the special risks associated with his trade and will guard against them. This means the occupier will be free to leave the tradesman to do just that and will not have a higher duty of care placed upon them.

[–] Aux 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The wording "guard against them" means they're certified and insured. But if you call a random dude from the ad, you can get fucked real hard.

[–] kameecoding 1 points 7 months ago

So if you call a random guy instead of someone working in that field and he falls then you can be liable, thats pretty different from what you said...

i am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure they would also have to prove that you knew the guy wasn't an actual tradesman.