XPost: alt.talk.royalty, alt.conspiracy, alt.gossip.royalty   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <1142197498.927153.214640@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,   
   cj.buyers@virgin.net writes   
      
   >volcaran wrote:   
   >One wonders why he wants   
   >> yet a further delay having been partly responsible for some of the   
   >> delay caused in the French proceedings which in turn has delayed the UK   
   >> inquests. Maybe he is getting concerned that a claim against his empire   
   >> looms large.   
   >   
   >Presumably it is becoming increasingly clear that the driver supplied   
   >by the hotel may have been drunk, known to have been so by other   
   >employees of the hotel, and served by others also employed by the   
   >hotel?   
   >   
   >I understand that under French law the hotel may consequently be   
   >liable. Is that so?   
      
   If it were true that a hotel had supplied a drunken driver, I believe   
   the answer would be yes.   
      
   Would you agree that if a driver really were heavily drunk, then   
   bodyguards - e.g. a bodyguard who sat next to the driver - would have   
   been negligent not to notice?   
      
   Would you agree that in such circumstances it would not be likely that a   
   bodyguard who had been badly injured in the crash would have a legal leg   
   to stand on if he wished to sue the hotel for negligence?   
      
   The line that MAF is motivated by a wish to avoid getting sued is   
   complete rubbish IMO.   
      
   Dunno whether you have got an opinion on how well or badly hotel   
   employees reacted when Pamela Harriman got taken ill in the pool at the   
   Paris Ritz, and died a short while later.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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