From: Jeff@invalid.invalid 
  
 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. 
  
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 Jeff 
  
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