From: jgnewsid@outlook.com 
  
 On 03/08/2025 in message  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? 
 > 
 >Mark 
  
 They wouldn't have a duty of care for the advice. It's like me suggesting 
 you invest in something, it wouldn't be professional advice as I know 
 nothing about investments. 
  
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 Jeff Gaines Dorset UK 
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 life are pointing away from Earth? 
  
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