From: max_demian@bigfoot.com 
  
 On 03/08/2025 22:31, Jeff Layman wrote: 
 > On 03/08/2025 20:33, Mark Goodge wrote: 
  
 >> I'm aware that, in some circumstances, giving bad advice can amount to 
 >> professional negligence. But what if the person giving the advice is 
 >> not, in 
 >> any sense, a professional in that field? Can they, too, be liable if 
 >> their 
 >> advice causes demonstrable loss to the person taking, and acting on, 
 >> their 
 >> advice? 
 > 
 > Would it not depend to a large extent on whether or not they are trying 
 > to pass themselves off as a professional? Following the advice of 
 > someone carrying an electricians toolkit to connect the brown wire to 
 > the neutral connection, the blue wire to the live connection, and leave 
 > the earth wire disconnected, would have a different connotation to 
 > someone dressed as a multicoloured chicken giving the same advice. 
  
 Electricians aren't "official" in the way that gas fitters are. Anyone 
 can call himself an electrician. 
  
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