From: Jeff@invalid.invalid 
  
 On 04/08/2025 14:43, Mark Goodge wrote: 
 > 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? 
  
 Wouldn't this come under "duty of care" legislation? 
  
  
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 Jeff 
  
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