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Re: [LUG] F.A.S.T.

 

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



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