' Row over spiritualist regulations'
Jun. 5th, 2008 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7'Mediums and spiritualists fear changes to laws regulating the industry could leave them open to malicious civil action by sceptics.
'. . .Under the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, prosecutors have to prove the medium or healer had intended to be fraudulent in order to secure a conviction.
'But under the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, which comes into force in the UK on 26 May, it will be the medium's responsibility to prove they did not mislead or coerce vulnerable consumers. '
And how, precisely, will that be proven? Damn it. This is why I should have gone to Law School.
There are far too few people dealing with this shit.
Rar.
Add this to the other bullshit going on in my head, and it's not the best of mornings.
The Dresden Dolls - [Sorry Bunch]--- Hey.
'. . .Under the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, prosecutors have to prove the medium or healer had intended to be fraudulent in order to secure a conviction.
'But under the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, which comes into force in the UK on 26 May, it will be the medium's responsibility to prove they did not mislead or coerce vulnerable consumers. '
And how, precisely, will that be proven? Damn it. This is why I should have gone to Law School.
There are far too few people dealing with this shit.
Rar.
Add this to the other bullshit going on in my head, and it's not the best of mornings.
The Dresden Dolls - [Sorry Bunch]--- Hey.
