Family stuck in a faulty lift for over an hour

Were you there or is your information secondhand?

Who operates the museum?

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Quote from: mickR on October 13, 2023, 09:39:13 am

I'm also surprised that members seem to dismiss this event as an inconvenience as opposedto a traumatic experience. have any of these members been stuck in a lift?

Traumatic enough to result in a recognised psychiatric illness? That’s the key point and without a report from a consultant psychiatrist saying so any claim is going nowhere.

that's interesting, and not something that was mentioned to me when discussing a possible claim.

Quote from: Southpaw82 on October 13, 2023, 09:48:00 am

Quote from: mickR on October 13, 2023, 09:39:13 am

I'm also surprised that members seem to dismiss this event as an inconvenience as opposedto a traumatic experience. have any of these members been stuck in a lift?

Traumatic enough to result in a recognised psychiatric illness? That’s the key point and without a report from a consultant psychiatrist saying so any claim is going nowhere.

that's interesting, and not something that was mentioned to me when discussing a possible claim.

It’s pretty basic stuff. Thankfully we’re not the US, where being mildly inconvenienced seems to result in millions of dollars in compensation.

Hmm ok, I was told "medical assessment" which I assumed to be a doctor/consultant report but may have turned into a full psychiatric investigation. 

Hmm ok, I was told "medical assessment" which I assumed to be a doctor/consultant report but may have turned into a full psychiatric investigation. 

Who knows? We’re pretty old school here so I select my own appropriate experts. I think in England a lot of firms use clearinghouses to do that for them.

Thankfully we’re not the US, where being mildly inconvenienced seems to result in millions of dollars in compensation.

The much bigger problem in the US is that costs don't follow the event, which as you might imagine can have very perverse consequences.

Quote from: Southpaw82 on October 14, 2023, 03:10:58 pm

Thankfully we’re not the US, where being mildly inconvenienced seems to result in millions of dollars in compensation.

The much bigger problem in the US is that costs don't follow the event, which as you might imagine can have very perverse consequences.

I have just posted a thread.

Can you explain to me what costs follow the event means EXACTLY?

What is the EVENT? Can there be a chain of events. You'll probably understand what I am getting at if you read my post and, if not, I shall explain.

Costs follow the event means that the loser of any particular claim or application normally pays the winner’s costs.

Costs follow the event means that the loser of any particular claim or application normally pays the winner’s costs.

So it's as simple as that.

I'll revert to my post about this then - "This will raise a laugh... CONTENTIOUS PROBATE!"

Thanks SP.

Quote from: Southpaw82 on December 02, 2024, 09:42:10 pm

Costs follow the event means that the loser of any particular claim or application normally pays the winner’s costs.

So it's as simple as that.

I'll revert to my post about this then - "This will raise a laugh... CONTENTIOUS PROBATE!"

Thanks SP.

Just noticed you marked my reply as DUMB!

I have a lot of respect for you and can only assume perhaps wrongly that you hit the wrong button or have misconstrued what I wrote…

 

what has contentious probate got to do with anything?

Quote from: Hroogar on December 02, 2024, 09:46:56 pm

Quote from: Southpaw82 on December 02, 2024, 09:42:10 pm

Costs follow the event means that the loser of any particular claim or application normally pays the winner’s costs.

So it's as simple as that.

I'll revert to my post about this then - "This will raise a laugh... CONTENTIOUS PROBATE!"

Thanks SP.

Just noticed you marked my reply as DUMB!

I have a lot of respect for you and can only assume perhaps wrongly that you hit the wrong button or have misconstrued what I wrote…

 

Yeah, that will have been fat fingers, sorry. Marking it “dumb” doesn’t even make sense.

what has contentious probate got to do with anything?

I posted about my woeful life in the non traffic legal advice section. Sadly no-one replied and it’s still rumbling on

The ******* emailed me the other day to say the reason they have not distributed the estate is because my brother hasn’t replied with his bank details.

I wrote back to say I care not if his inheritance sits in their bank account for 20 years.

So not linked to this post but my solicitor keeps talking about costs after the event. But I never understood what ‘THE EVENT’ is classed as.

Feel free to read and comment on that other post. No-one has done so far.

3 years plus of sheer hell and my mother still hasn’t been interred.

Yeah, that will have been fat fingers, sorry. Marking it “dumb” doesn’t even make sense.

I know that feeling only too well.