Comments on: Pressure mounts on comhairle to take gritting more seriously as cold snap expected soon http://maciverblog.co.uk/2013/11/18/pressure-mounts-for-comhairle-to-take-gritting-more-seriously/ Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:52:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Guga http://maciverblog.co.uk/2013/11/18/pressure-mounts-for-comhairle-to-take-gritting-more-seriously/#comment-16561 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 04:16:21 +0000 http://maciverblog.co.uk/?p=12296#comment-16561 I was under the impression that the Comhairle had a legal obligation to grit both roads and pavements, or has the law been changed? In any event, the have a legal “duty of care” for Islanders, and failure to fulfill that duty of care is liable to leave them open to compensation claims.

Needless to say, any compensation paid out to injured parties as a result of their failures will, of course, have to be funded by the council tax payers, again.

It would be interesting to know just how much it has cost the poor benighted council tax payers for the assorted legal costs run up by the Comhairle over the years due to their arrogance, stubbornness and incompetence.

]]> By: C M macdonald http://maciverblog.co.uk/2013/11/18/pressure-mounts-for-comhairle-to-take-gritting-more-seriously/#comment-16524 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:07:26 +0000 http://maciverblog.co.uk/?p=12296#comment-16524 if its true that the comarhaile is ignoring requests from emergency services the people responsible could be dealt with by the law . it has happened in other places .

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