How liable is a board for its content ?? ( just being nosey ;) ) If a member admitted something illegal then how does the board stand if they let the post stay ?? ..I'd appreciate any feedback from knowledgable peeps :) ......and wild guesses from them not so pmsl :D (joke )

Edited to say ..its nothing to do with here :D

If a member admitted something illegal then that is nothing to do with the board.  Admitting by making a confession means nothing to a board , board owner or its members. .  The person posting is the one who has committed an offence or allegation of an offense.

If I went to a pub and admitted I had done something illegal the listeners or pub owners would hardly have any responsibility to my confession.    ;-)

The managers could possibly become, accessories after the fact, is the legal term. In other words same as anyone else, if someone knows an offence has been committed and not reported it to the appropriate authorities, then in failing to do so they are actually compounding the original offence.
As far as I understand it, it makes them just as liable to be prosecuted for the offence alongside the original perpetrator. 
I stand to be corrected on this point but i am fairly sure that is the law as it stands.

Bazza

Just read tos and on here its clear

This is one of the reasons I hate to comment on legal things too much.. as it takes more than a small post to cover legal things. :-)

There are only certain areas where people would be obliged to report offense and hopefully these are not things we would see on a public dog board.

If someone was to admit a mu*der or Rap* or they left someone dying at the side of the road etc that is a different thing but if someone admitted fiddling KC papers or broke the speed limit, wrote a boucing cheque etc they could hardly be expected to report it the police would get nothing done except file reports :-)

I was assuming the poster wasn't meaning some serious criminal offense. :-D or I hope not.

Leaving someone dying at the side of a road... is that a criminal offense?

Is there some doubt in your mind about that?

Yes. I didn't think you could get arrested for just walking by... You don't know if the person is actually dying, they could be drunk and passed out. Also, they could be faking it to try and r*pe innocent people. When I was learning first aid I was always told to shout to the person first and if they still didn't respond, kick them in the leg! Reason being, there have been cases where r*pists pretend to be passed out so that innocent people come to their aid and get taken by surprise...

*nods* ...I see what you mean though I did a first aid course 4 weeks ago and was NOT told to kick anyone in the leg!

Well I was... obviously not hard though. It's so easy to pretend you can't hear anyone shouting to you... but not so easy to suppress a reaction to a kick you didn't know was coming!!

I think it depends whether or not they were the cause of the person to be lying there.

If it was a hit-and-run, then yes, they've left the scene of an accident. If there was a fight and they hit the victim to the floor and fled, then that's GBH or ABH. Just 'passing by on the other side' as it were, I think, is merely morally and socially reprehensible, but I don't think it's a crime.

Hi Jeangenie,

Leaving someone to die at the side of a road knowingly can be an offense even if you were not totally involved.. ANOTHER huge grey area I will add though and very complicated .. that is why these criminal cases take months and months , with the "he did she did" .... so complicated ;-)

I can't remember the exact case that sets it as I have not looked at criminal things for a few years  but it doesn't actually have to be your infliction for you to have a responsiblity to the person but it does have to be serious .

The case I remember vaguely was to do with someone being very very drunk and thrown out the pub ,the drunk then later died due to being outside in the cold if I remember , the landlord was held liable on the grounds of Manslaughter for knowning leaving him there.   It is a very very old case.

All makes interesting converstation.