Legal help Please
Discussion
Does anyone on here have experience of local authority and legal action?
To sum up briefly, My brother is a landscape gardener and worked on a local (council owned/run) playcentre that his wife was manager at. A new swing/slide activity centre was installed. All good and well, now they have split up and going through a messy divorce. She has written to him saying the slide is dangerous etc and faulty and wants compensation. It was installed 1.5 years ago and he has proof with pictures of the quality of the workmanship. She wont let him on the site to rectify the "problem" - as there is no problem.
I thought about flying a drone over and videoing it!
Joking aside she is an absolute b
h and is only doing this for spite. After 4 letters back and forth she now has written to say she is sending it to the council's legal department.
Will they write to him before taking any action (if they do at all - i doubt it. My brother is very good at what he does, he has won awards etc so is no idiot or half a job jim).
Or is he best to write to the council before hand and explain that he has had a letter and this has nothing to do with the quality of his workmanship more the fact his ex wife is being an absolute bh?
Thanks
To sum up briefly, My brother is a landscape gardener and worked on a local (council owned/run) playcentre that his wife was manager at. A new swing/slide activity centre was installed. All good and well, now they have split up and going through a messy divorce. She has written to him saying the slide is dangerous etc and faulty and wants compensation. It was installed 1.5 years ago and he has proof with pictures of the quality of the workmanship. She wont let him on the site to rectify the "problem" - as there is no problem.
I thought about flying a drone over and videoing it!
Joking aside she is an absolute b
h and is only doing this for spite. After 4 letters back and forth she now has written to say she is sending it to the council's legal department. Will they write to him before taking any action (if they do at all - i doubt it. My brother is very good at what he does, he has won awards etc so is no idiot or half a job jim).
Or is he best to write to the council before hand and explain that he has had a letter and this has nothing to do with the quality of his workmanship more the fact his ex wife is being an absolute b
h?Thanks
Update - he sent a friend in today and walked on to the grounds and could see kids playing on the slide so all sounds utter BS. Probably not a great idea to take a picture with kids on it as proof but least he has a witness.
Yes he has PL insurance & was the main contractor. I cant see anything coming of it, especially if the council contacts him and he explains how he knows the manager/circumstances.
Yes he has PL insurance & was the main contractor. I cant see anything coming of it, especially if the council contacts him and he explains how he knows the manager/circumstances.
Wasn’t there an almost identically worded thread to this about someone doing some electrical work in a school for free recently and now being sued?
EDIT: this one, was a CCTV not electrical, but intriguingly similar
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=17...
EDIT: this one, was a CCTV not electrical, but intriguingly similar
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=17...
Edited by Gavia on Wednesday 22 November 15:43
She should have an annual playground inspection from a qualified inspector and if she thinks it is dangerous it should be roped off and not allowed to be used and get a report from the inspector.
She would be in more trouble is letting children use it after saying she thinks it is dangerous
She would be in more trouble is letting children use it after saying she thinks it is dangerous
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