Will You Help Out Your Friends?

[youngmafbog]

I help out quite a bit, this is making me think again.

The country is slowly going to hell in a hand cart thanks to the judiciary interpretation of the rules. Surely no law was ever meant to make this happen?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4397532/Architect-sued-landscaping-friends-garden-free.html#comments

[emmie]

if you read down it would seem that it wasn't for free at all, as she got in some Polish workers to do the work.
I feel sorry for the woman but perhaps the couple have a point, if you pay for something and don't like it surely you can ask for compensation.

[Mamyalynne]

A complex case so can't comment on the legal aspect.

Would I still help out friends - yes.

[ummmm]

It's a misleading headline.

[hc4361]

She provided her professional services for free - she's an architect. She did not make a penny from it

[emmie]

i personally have helped out friends and got a kick in the pants for my pains. Never again as they say.

[ToraToraTora]

no good deed goes un punished YMB!

[EDDIE51]

It's in the Daily Wail so it is hardly going to be accurate!
If you read it the woman was paid to do it but charged 'Mates rates'.
She was in charge of the subcontractor she found and was correctly expected to act in a professional manner which she did not do!
Yet another Daily Wail non story!

[EDDIE51]

She may not have been paid directly but she found the subcontractor and paid them, presumably taking her 'cut' from the subcontractor !

[hc4361]

I can't see in the Mail or this report that she got paid or paid the builders herself and took a cut

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/couple-sue-friend-for-265k-after-back-garden-disaster-a3159186.html

The judge said:
“In view of their former friendship and the fact that the services were said to have been gratuitous, the case serves as something of a cautionary tale,”

[Jackdaw33]

You know the old saying: A friend in need is a bloody pest.

[hc4361]

Good summary here

https://www.muckle-llp.com/enews/friend-need-friend-court/

[hc4361]

I will help out my friends but I won't recommend restaurants, hotels - anything.
They always have a carp meal or experience when I do.

[Samuraisan]

Very true hc4321. That has happened to us countless times.

[Samuraisan]

Sorry hc4361

[Mamyalynne]

I did once help a friend build a wardrobe - thankfully I did state beforehand I might be bad at it.

We had a good bonfire that year.

[hc4361]

I hope you did some baked potatoes in that bonfire, mamya - otherwise it would have been a waste.

[jno]

if you told a friend you were a plumber and you'd fix their leaking pipe for free, and then went ahead and flooded the house ... yes, I think they'd be within their rights to sue you.

I'm assuming none of this was covered by insurance.

[ummmm]

They should have got the pros in and not tried to get it on the cheap.

[hc4361]

Greedy, greedy people

[woofgang]

Well.....it may be breaking new ground to apply duty of care to an architect, but when I was in practice as an Occupational Therapist, I was definitely aware that my duty of care covered anything I did professionally regardless of whether it was for recompense or not...and I know that at time, my nurse colleagues were similarly bound.