From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 4 Aug 2025 at 12:52:34 BST, "Max Demian"  wrote: 
  
 > 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. 
  
 That is simply untrue. Indeed, the rules for significant electrical work are 
 more restrictive than for gas work - you can't sign it off yourself even if 
 you are competent. 
  
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