Indeed. For various reasons, my entire (extensive) central heating control system derives its power via a 13A plug (rather than the more expected FCU), but I wouldn't say that makes the downstream parts of the wiring 'an appliance'!
Are you perhaps familiar with "Approved Document P", which is the official guidance in relation to Part P of the Building Regulations (aka 'the law' relating to electrical installations)? ...
Approved Document P said:
He is doing a complete rewire, and takes umbrage at any suggestion that he doesn't know enough, so how could he not be familiar with it?
Per what I've just written, it sounds as if that court should probably have been directed to the Secretary of States' guidance on interpretation of the law in Approved Document P.
I can't disagree with that but, in view of the official guidance (which seems to have been ignored by the court, in favour of the opinions of possibly biased 'experts'), I imagine that it's a precedent which would probably rapidly be overturned by a higher court.
No, you have experience of two witnesses who have made an incorrect statement in a court.
That was a civil case, and therefore of no relevance to what the criminal law says about fixed electrical installations.
Where you see discouragements we see the importance of genuine competence, the importance of grasping the idea that making it up as you go along is unacceptable, and the importance of accurate information on what the law requires.
1) This is not your thread.
Were you not competently legally represented in that case? It would seem very odd if the (incorrect) view of two 'experts' was allowed to go unchallenged. What did your expert witnesses have to say?
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