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 On Sun, 3 Aug 2025 22:31:31 +0100, 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. 
  
 I'm thinking of someone who makes no claim to be a regulated professional, 
 but nonetheless presents themself as a knowledgeable and experienced 
 amateur. Like, for example, a lot of people here. If I gave bad legal advice 
 to someone, and it cost them money (eg, by losing a hopeless case that I 
 wrongly advised them was easily winnable), would I have any liability? 
  
 Mark 
  
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