Guys, guys, guys,
if I were you, I would not give this matter any more thought! If there is a problem and there have been complaints about the BBQ, then the adult and professional way to address them is to lay them before the alleged offenders (ie MKB) with details of the complaint and who has made the complaint. (After all, as a criminal lawyer myself, I would expect nothing less in my professional capacity).
No one can be expected to answer or rectify a position when the full details are not disclosed. That would be unreasonable.
My suggestion (to MKB) would be to conduct a review on Health and Safety grounds, making any mods required, consider if any insurance is also needed and then leave it at that.
Take the BBQ to events and if the
owners of the venue are unhappy and refuse admittance then there you are.
As far as I understand it, any events manager has to have public liablity insurance for any event they put on in order to cover themselves for any
contractors they have on site. I don't think the liabilty would extend to cover the BBQ or anyone else who came onto the site.
This argument, may or may not have errupted partially from a misunderstanding regarding legal liability. Still contract law remains the same - if your contract to stay somewhere (eg Billing) is with the owners then it is the owners that give the terms and conditions and decides what can or can not come onto their site.
As the British Gas ad says - "Chill man"!
The AACI have stated that they want nothing to do with us so let us get on with our own knitting and ignore anything they have to say. Likewise, any member of the AACI, who does not want anything to do with us would be wise to do likewise. No one ever heard good of themselves whilst eavesdropping and there is nothing like referring to this argument (quoting different threads) to stir the blood and keep the argument afresh.
Oh and happy Easter to you all!!
