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Originally Posted by jeff st4s Just spoken to Magistrate friend of mine. He says if they have not shown a reasonable duty of care to look after your property then they are liable, they can put up any number of exclusion notices they want. If the property was heavily defended and lots of security measures were in place, then they have tried to look after your property, if they left it out on a road/forcourt then they have not. |
thanks guys.
The car was left in their car park (along with the cars that they sell) which has a fairly high fence all the way around the perimeter and a locked gate. The thieves climbed over the fence, stole the hardtop and passed it over the fence.
The garage deals exclusively in my type of car and they know that the hard tops are targetted by thieves. There is a workshop that my car could have been left in overnight if they had wanted to but I have no idea whether it was full of other cars or not.
Would that constitute reasonable duty of care? Who decides whether it is or not?