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Quoting Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tuesday 06 November 2007 12:47, Rob Beard wrote: >> 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. > I know they exist - but they were rendered useless in the early 80s. > They used to visit places but now they might just turn up after a few people > have died. > You might have been payed but that doesn't mean they do anything. Try > reporting breaches to them - they leap into inaction faster then you can say > 'the government would close us down as an impediment to business but that > would be too obvious!' > Tom te tom te tom >> >> Rob > Before I left I did my back in due to lack of Health & Safety training which I thought was a bit ironic. Still feeling the effects of it now. Oh well. 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