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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: DASERVICES on June 10, 2007, 11:11:30 pm

Title: Window cleaners court case
Post by: DASERVICES on June 10, 2007, 11:11:30 pm

A long read but the hazzard of employing someone :-

http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/2007CSOH17.html

Title: Re: Window cleaners court case
Post by: choice.clean on June 11, 2007, 09:19:39 pm

I don't neccesarily agree with the employers working practices but boy what a blow. £30000 to find and no liability cover. I feel sorry for both of them I think I would turn to the bottle with him ;)

Title: Re: Window cleaners court case
Post by: Moderator David@stives on June 11, 2007, 10:48:15 pm

Can someone summarize this case for us ?

It is a lot to read and i cant quite get my head round it at the moment

Dave

Title: Re: Window cleaners court case
Post by: EasyClean on June 11, 2007, 11:23:56 pm

And he was a dole boy doing it on the cheap! I hate the summer brigade!

Title: Re: Window cleaners court case
Post by: Ian Lancaster on June 12, 2007, 04:00:54 pm

My computer balked at the prospect of downloading umpteen pages of legalese, but the impression I got was that the "judge" didn't believe the claimant was employed by the window cleaner and that at the time of the accident the "employees" were working on "foreigners" anyway, not the employers work, so I presume the window cleaner was judged not to have been the dole cheat's employer at the time of the accident, so therefore was not liable to pay anything.

The £30,000 was what the judge reckoned the injured man would have got if his claim had been successful.

At least that's what I hope the outcome was.

I'd have broken his other heel bone >:(

Cheers ;D

Ian