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  EDline Vol. 8, no. 35   (3 April 2003)

  Editorial mailing list (digest version)
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  Contents:

         Business matters
  [4hu]  Public liability insurance

  [5]    Bookmarks

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---[4]-- Business matters ---------------------------------------

         Date: Tues, 25 March 2003
         From: Sue Innes, sueinnes@pacificcoast.net

Esther Shchory wrote:

> Few years ago a burglar successfully sued the owner of the
> house he was burgling because he tripped and broke his leg on
> a broken garden paving stone. I would not count on anyone have
> common decency or common sense: get the insurance.

[and in a follow-up message]

> It was in the 1980s so I wouldn't remember. But I actually saw
> the report on the local news, and was so incensed I instigated
> an ethics class discussion on the subject.
>
> But to be honest I think the decision was thrown out as
> ridiculous and the judge who made the decision declared batty
> or something similar.

Certainly here in Canada the houseowner is liable for injuries
sustained by trespassers. We have a 15ft pit on our land (attempt
to find water- but it's dry as a bone) and a visiting lawyer
friend told us to fence it in so no one could fall into it. We
could be sued if some trespasser hurt himself. We just have a
small acreage, so it's not as if there are public footpaths near
here. It's clearly private property.

Seems ridiculous to me, too.



---[5]-- Bookmarks ----------------------------------------------

         Job resource: Book People

         Date: Wed, 2 April 2003
         From: Tracey Dooley, Tracey.Dooley@lycos.co.uk

A writer forum I belong to provided this excellent link
(although, for the most part, it seems to cover FT vacancies):

Book People Vacancies Page

  < http://www.book-people.net/bpjobs.html >


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