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Surely this is a warm-up for 1st April?
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It gets dafter each day.
Why shouldn't we protect our property from these criminals without the fear of being sued if they injure themselves?
No court in the land should award compensation to a criminal if the injuries they received were sustained in the pursuance of a criminal act.
Surely it would be in the interest of the insurance companies to jointly get together and fight to get the law changed, after all it is mainly them who have to pick up the bill.
It gets dafter each day.
Why shouldn't we protect our property from these criminals without the fear of being sued if they injure themselves?
No court in the land should award compensation to a criminal if the injuries they received were sustained in the pursuance of a criminal act.
Surely it would be in the interest of the insurance companies to jointly get together and fight to get the law changed, after all it is mainly them who have to pick up the bill.
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This really is quite simple and would be governed by the Occupiers Liability Act 1984.
You aren't allowed to set traps for tresspassers of burglars, but installing a metal mesh over the window of a shed is not a trap and therefore if a burglar was injured while trying to break-in, the shed owner would not be liable.
Almost certainly if a burglar did try to sue he would do so under the above Act and, unless my memory of the Act is not what it was, I can't see how a burglar could stand a chance of succeeding.
You aren't allowed to set traps for tresspassers of burglars, but installing a metal mesh over the window of a shed is not a trap and therefore if a burglar was injured while trying to break-in, the shed owner would not be liable.
Almost certainly if a burglar did try to sue he would do so under the above Act and, unless my memory of the Act is not what it was, I can't see how a burglar could stand a chance of succeeding.
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vibrasphere
/// you see AOG, the word is COULD, could lead to criminals claiming.
Not will or has done but COULD.
Just don't understand why you are so quick to go all frothy over this non story ///
First don't shout, it's against ABs rules.
So it is all wrong for one to be on their guard, best leave it until it happens eh?
Can't you understand that this is far from being a non story? as can been seen from the majorities response, it is something to be concerned about (not 'frothy') as you wrongly put.
/// you see AOG, the word is COULD, could lead to criminals claiming.
Not will or has done but COULD.
Just don't understand why you are so quick to go all frothy over this non story ///
First don't shout, it's against ABs rules.
So it is all wrong for one to be on their guard, best leave it until it happens eh?
Can't you understand that this is far from being a non story? as can been seen from the majorities response, it is something to be concerned about (not 'frothy') as you wrongly put.
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jackthehat
/// So then, AOG, you agree that this is a non-story.......?///
No I do not, this is a story about the fact that the police have warned shed owners that there is a possibility of them being sued by the burglar if they happened to injure themselves on the mess put up to secure the shed windows against such intruders.
Now twist and turn it in your own particular way, but it is still a story worth reporting.
/// If, as flip_flop's post shows, there is no law against putting mesh up, there can be no danger of any prosecutions resulting..///.........
No there is no law against putting the mesh up, that is obvious, but the implications that can arise from such an action is another thing entirely.........
/// So then, AOG, you agree that this is a non-story.......?///
No I do not, this is a story about the fact that the police have warned shed owners that there is a possibility of them being sued by the burglar if they happened to injure themselves on the mess put up to secure the shed windows against such intruders.
Now twist and turn it in your own particular way, but it is still a story worth reporting.
/// If, as flip_flop's post shows, there is no law against putting mesh up, there can be no danger of any prosecutions resulting..///.........
No there is no law against putting the mesh up, that is obvious, but the implications that can arise from such an action is another thing entirely.........
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It is the same with that story that says "if one sweeps up the snow outside one's house, and someone happens to slip on any ice etc that has been left in the process, one "COULD" be sued.
There's that 5-letter word again..........*could*......
Maybe but, "care to take the chance"? then that is entirely a different matter.
Your house "could" burn down, so one takes out insurance, but perhaps not it only "could", nothing certain.
Once again "care to take the chance"?
There's that 5-letter word again..........*could*......
Maybe but, "care to take the chance"? then that is entirely a different matter.
Your house "could" burn down, so one takes out insurance, but perhaps not it only "could", nothing certain.
Once again "care to take the chance"?
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All part of being in Europe and the ECHR. We are no longer king of our castle the rat boys are.
Most right-on liberals have taken leave of their comoon sense in pursuit of their ideologies and we are left with the mess. Plod being filled with University types (righton liberals) backs them.
Egypt had a revolution, perhpas ours will be next ?
Most right-on liberals have taken leave of their comoon sense in pursuit of their ideologies and we are left with the mess. Plod being filled with University types (righton liberals) backs them.
Egypt had a revolution, perhpas ours will be next ?
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