From: roland@perry.uk 
  
 In message <106q6u1$252vg$1@dont-email.me>, at 12:52:34 on Mon, 4 Aug 
 2025, Max Demian  remarked: 
 >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 
 >>>  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. 
  
 There is a certification process for serious work. The chap who replaced 
 my consumer unit was a trainee, and with my consent his work was 
 supervised by an inspector so he could get the qualification. 
 -- 
 Roland Perry 
  
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