Poor EICR report results in prosecution

[LukeD]

why use real name etc .Most of the EICR cowboys in london used fake details and took cash

 

[timhoward]

In the immortal words of Spike Milligan “About bloody time!”

 

[UNG]

It's about time this happened but this is just one prosecution in a very big pool of poor and incorrect EICR's
I think the judgement could have a bit more punitive as a discouragement to others and may be should have included paying for all his other EICR's to be reviewed as no doubt any other EICR's he has done are to the same standard

 

[Lister1987]

Easier to get a guaranteed conviction under CPR rather than EAWR.

So doesn't that tell us something? EAWR needs revisiting to include false reporting, that or that specific regulation regarding systems of work needs expanding to include reporting etc

 

[Strima]

So doesn't that tell us something? EAWR needs revisiting to include false reporting, that or that specific regulation regarding systems of work needs expanding to include reporting etc

I think it's more to do with the work he was contracted to do. If there'd been a fatality due to poor reporting then EAWR would have come into play but he didn't complete the work he was contracted to do hence the CPR.

 

[Simon47]

I think the judgement could have a bit more punitive as a discouragement to others ...

That struck me as well. If he's charging the sort of fees that some other criminals are anecdotally charging for EICRs, then it's not going to take long to recoup his costs.
It mentions that he was a member of STROMA at the time, implying that he isn't now - so presumably he's just joined a different scam.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

That struck me as well. If he's charging the sort of fees that some other criminals are anecdotally charging for EICRs, then it's not going to take long to recoup his costs.
It mentions that he was a member of STROMA at the time, implying that he isn't now - so presumably he's just joined a different scam.

Stroma no longer exists with regards CPS.

This is a good story and a step in the right direction, but I don't think this one off prosecution will deter any of the people carrying out Dodgy EICR's. Perhaps if it gains more coverage on TV and there are a number of high profile prosecutions. Unfortunately, it may even take someone to be injured or worse following a dodgy EICR, otherwise I can't see much changing in the near future.

 

[Lister1987]

Stroma no longer exists with regards CPS.

This is a good story and a step in the right direction, but I don't think this one off prosecution will deter any of the people carrying out Dodgy EICR's. Perhaps if it gains more coverage on TV and there are a number of high profile prosecutions. Unfortunately, it may even take someone to be injured or worse following a dodgy EICR, otherwise I can't see much changing in the near future.

It may not but it's now set a precedent in law that may be able to be taken advantage of by consumers duped by drive-by EICRs, assuming other TS of tht Various council's get on board with it now thry can see it has brought prosecution.

 

[Lister1987]

An aside, do we think prosecution succeeded as STROMA now being defunct could have been a factor? No CPS complaints process to try and help the duped client, that said there are those not in a CPS that do EICRs so maybe not.

 

[littlespark]

It will come a time when you have to be a member of a cps to do an EICR, which many people are not, and are perfectly honest doing them.
The membership of a cps does not guarantee non cowboy, as this article shows.