Well, jokes aside, property owners have a responsibility for the well being of anyone on their property in the UK. A lousy contractor without insurance falls from the ladder and snaps their neck? Off you go to jail!
UK has very old laws. Some of them are like a thousand years old. It never had a revolution, so a lot of dumb shit got stuck. For example, if your house is near a church then you must pay the church for their building maintenance, lol.
When a person is in the exercise of his trade at a premises (eg, an electrician), that person will appreciate the special risks associated with his trade and will guard against them. This means the occupier will be free to leave the tradesman to do just that and will not have a higher duty of care placed upon them.
Well, jokes aside, property owners have a responsibility for the well being of anyone on their property in the UK. A lousy contractor without insurance falls from the ladder and snaps their neck? Off you go to jail!
Sounds to me like the UK is either stupid or corrupt.
UK has very old laws. Some of them are like a thousand years old. It never had a revolution, so a lot of dumb shit got stuck. For example, if your house is near a church then you must pay the church for their building maintenance, lol.
When there’s nothing a country can do about pieces of paper written on a thousand years ago, the legislative process is pretty well invalid.
Well yeah, but we have free medicine, worker rights, paid holidays and other things Americans call communism.
Yeah, I don’t believe that for a second
You don’t have to believe, you can check the law.https://www.claims.co.uk/knowledge-base/land-law/occupiers-liability
Bro your own link contradicts you
The wording “guard against them” means they’re certified and insured. But if you call a random dude from the ad, you can get fucked real hard.
So if you call a random guy instead of someone working in that field and he falls then you can be liable, thats pretty different from what you said…
i am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure they would also have to prove that you knew the guy wasn’t an actual tradesman.