How many EICRs in a day?

[trev]

I'm not a full-fledged lawyer by any manner of means so don't take the above as professional legal advice.

So you're a partly fledged lawyer then? A Electrical Trainee lawyer if you will?

 

[Badged01]

mmmm ...... so to the extreme you don't do any testing/inspection because you use limit/op reasons not to ( a quick drive by). You then give a "satisfactory" for continued use based on your caveates and the client (not technically minded as to what results do/do not mean) assumes all is good and carrys on as per normal safe in the knowledge he has this piece of paper which he is led to believe discharges his duties under the EAWR's.

I don't know the answer but I can imagine the legal wrangling you could well be caught up in. Guilty or not of any charges, the smoke without fire will be hanging around you and your business!

 

[NickD]

So you're a partly fledged lawyer then? A Electrical Trainee lawyer if you will?

Miaow I did most of a graduate diploma in law.

 

[trev]

Just ragging you Nick, sometimes the opportunities present themselves.
I always thought a diploma was a bit down from a degree though

 

[NickD]

mmmm ...... so to the extreme you don't do any testing/inspection because you use limit/op reasons not to ( a quick drive by). You then give a "satisfactory" for continued use based on your caveates and the client (not technically minded as to what results do/do not mean) assumes all is good and carrys on as per normal safe in the knowledge he has this piece of paper which he is led to believe discharges his duties under the EAWR's.

What I said before is only about potential liability of the person doing the testing. There's another question again which is the potential liability of the person agreeing the limitations. If you said or implied it would suit his purposes and then did something so limited it wouldn't, or failed to be competent in designing the limitations to suit the requirement, then I imagine you're going to be toast in court one way or another.

The Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory choice and Section E in general bothers me a bit because it talks about the installation in general and doesn't mention limitations. In Section D you have defined what installation you are talking about, and in the Declaration you do say you declare the report an accurate assessment within the extent and limitations so you're probably OK...but something about "within the limitations" in Section E as well might be no bad thing. Which of course you could write in there.

 

[NickD]

Just ragging you Nick, sometimes the opportunities present themselves.
I always thought a diploma was a bit down from a degree though

A GDL is not a degree cos you don't study the lawmaking of Timon of Athens in the 2nd century BC and etc. but the Law Society considers the two the same. Probably law graduates rage about GDL 5WWs as well, but plenty of people with no law degree have gone very far in the legal profession.

 

[trev]

Either way, you'd still have to do the LSF/Bar finals to be able to claim full qualification as a solicitor/barrister

 

[NickD]

Either way, you'd still have to do the LSF/Bar finals to be able to claim full qualification as a solicitor/barrister

Yeah, you have to do either accredited law degree or GDL; then for the solicitor route it's a year's Legal Practice Course (LPC) which is about joy like what form to fill in when, then you need to join a firm on a training contract for two years, then you can go for your Articles. Long and winding road without necessarily a lot of money at the end unless you're prepared to work hundred-hour weeks doing the kind of law you probably never wanted to do, making money for people with too much money already who you'd rather see up against the wall when the revolution comes.