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Quoting Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Monday 05 November 2007 19:44, David Johnson wrote: >> On Monday 05 November 2007 10:01:26 Steph Foster wrote: >> > In fact , if any one enters your property being it business or >> > residential and you ask them to leave, if they fail to do so having >> > given them opportunity to do so they then become >> > trespassers. You have the legal right to evict them, with the use of >> > "reasonable force". >> > >> > This obviously excludes police and those in possession of a properly >> > executed warrant. >> >> You can add the Health and Safety Executive to that list. If you're a >> business they can kick your door in, shut you down, seize your property and >> force your staff to make statements (and prosecute them if they don't) all >> without any need for a warrant or the police... > well if they existed in any form other than mostly imaginary, and you'd > already killed most of your staff! > Tom te tom te tom >> There's nothing imaginary about the Health & Safety Executive, I was employed by them for nearly 12 months! From what I remember, their labs in Sheffield weren't all too safe, one of the buildings was so old it had a leaky roof. Was an interesting place though. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html