Prosecuted for doing an EICR , worrying precedent.......

[Engineer54]

I'd would say that it's a worrying precedent that there are now so many wanna be electricians out there, that either have no clue as to what their doing, or are just faking official paperwork for monetary gain....

It's about time in my opinion, that the powers that be, start prosecution procedures far more often, and far quicker than that of the present case going through judicial system....

 

[telectrix]

just to get back to the technicalities.... if the screw had just made contact with the L conductor and the metal studding, how would an IR test have picked this up? if the cable in question was in a safe zone, and someone has screwed in within the safe zone, then why is that person not in court? finally, as i can't remember, under the 16th ed., were cables within a metal stud wall required to be RCD protected or otherwise as with 17th 522.6.103?

 

[ian.settle1]

Slightly digressing the whole newspaper/media industry wants to be overhauled as here they are rearranging facts so they can gets better sales

Then you hear that someone has been prosecuted as they have revealed the name of someone who claimed they where raped and has lifetime anominity but the person they have accussed has their name spread across the papers before they have been up in court.

I personnally think that there should be a revue of the media with tougher penalties on them for things like this.

 

[amckay]

Talking about defence and prosecution, there are lawyers who specialise in road law others in tax and some in serious crime. Does anyone know of any lawyers who specialise in our industry? It would be good to have a lawyer (if needed) who knows his stuff on the subject rather than have any random lawyer who flicks thru books trying to sort your issue when he's already got a big workload ambulance chasing.

 

[Engineer54]

There are various specialisation solicitors but they are mainly based in company/contractual law and criminal law. All the others will always use expert witnesses as their main weapon in a court of law.
Remember, when it gets to Crown and High Court proceedings, it's Barristers that do the arguing under the briefs supplied by the defendants solicitors.