Fanny Haddock
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What does arise for me, from topic like this one, is that people really ought to be studying or taking basic courses in applicable areas of law, e.g. consumer & contract. Indeed, given the demise of legal aid in the UK, I've long thought they should be teaching it in schools in order to protect people in their later lives.
I became involved in a similar case recent where both sides, indeed both sides AND the respective harbour masters, were behaving attrociously; & this whole "data protection act" get out for the petty minded bureaucrats is a separate scourge used as an excuse when a simple "I don't know" would be the honest answer.
In that case, the harbour master's office minion was trying it on too, attempting to gouge the buyer for fees clearly owed by the seller according to their poorly, & ambiguously written BoS. They also clearly did not understanding the law. The buyer was then in a panic about the rising fees for a boat left dumped on a visitors berth, that they were then not being allowed to remove. The office attempting to get them off him.
Like cops who always just arrest whoever is standing in front of them, rather than have to go & find the real criminal.
Of course, as someone above wrote, possession is 9/10th of the law; and so sometimes the best thing to do is "say nothing to no one", give as little information away as possible, don't over react to provocation, NEVER threaten anything, & just possess the disputed item first (i.e. sail it away).
Harder to do if it's on the hard standing though, & a HIAB won't reach over the fence.
I became involved in a similar case recent where both sides, indeed both sides AND the respective harbour masters, were behaving attrociously; & this whole "data protection act" get out for the petty minded bureaucrats is a separate scourge used as an excuse when a simple "I don't know" would be the honest answer.
In that case, the harbour master's office minion was trying it on too, attempting to gouge the buyer for fees clearly owed by the seller according to their poorly, & ambiguously written BoS. They also clearly did not understanding the law. The buyer was then in a panic about the rising fees for a boat left dumped on a visitors berth, that they were then not being allowed to remove. The office attempting to get them off him.
Like cops who always just arrest whoever is standing in front of them, rather than have to go & find the real criminal.
Of course, as someone above wrote, possession is 9/10th of the law; and so sometimes the best thing to do is "say nothing to no one", give as little information away as possible, don't over react to provocation, NEVER threaten anything, & just possess the disputed item first (i.e. sail it away).
Harder to do if it's on the hard standing though, & a HIAB won't reach over the fence.
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