Charge for trespassing?

[Red Devil]

It must be if DB Cargo are facing prosecution. If it were the parents of the injured children seeking redress it would be a civil action, not criminal.

[blueg33]

The crane fee is easily justifiable, on our small sites the cost of delay is circa £20k per week, on the sites big enough for a tower crane it could be £80-100k per week.

If there is risk that a crane has been tampered with then it will need to inspected, this has a cost plus the crane can't work maybe for several days.

When we had a mobile crane fall over on a site we sued the crane operator and the payment was circa £150k. This covered the delay caused (2 weeks) and other consequential losses. Management time alone dealing with HSE would have been pretty significant.

[Atomic12C]

pavarotti1980 said:

The Selfish Gene said:

as long as you leave when requested, and don't do any physical damage, I believe that you can't be 'charged' for trespass.

You certainly can't be fined privately for it - see also why clamping was stopped.

I am friendly and help out with a number of base jumpers - they are often caught, and have this conversation with Plod.

At no point have any of them been charged with anything.

probably because trespass is a civil offence and not a criminal one

This is how I've always remembered it.
One can be on private property and be asked to leave - no automatic chargeable offense has been committed. Unless you refuse to leave - it then becomes "aggravated trespass" which is a criminal offence.

There are however a number of protected sites within the UK that are criminal trespass - and simply entering them without authority is a criminal offence ; these would be the likes of railways, airports, MOD land, Royal Family property, government buildings (MI5, parliament etc.) and a few other special cases.

[ging84]

AdeTuono said:

What sort of 'customer' would be climbing a crane. Bundles of £50's or not?

I guess the same sort of person will to pay £80 so they can park for 4hours in a car park that is free for 3hours.
In other words a completely non existent hypothetical person who only exists in they eyes of a bullst law that allows you claim people agree to a clearly putative contract terms on the basis you put up a sign.