Delay urged on teenage sex reform Ms Marshall said she did not want the age of consent to be lowered Scottish ministers have been urged to shelve controversial plans to reform the law governing teenage sex. The Children's Commissioner, Kathleen Marshall, has warned that a change could end up deterring young girls from seeking medical help.

'It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted' Judges should order more retrials over unsafe convictions, says criminal review chief By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor Saturday, 27 September 2008 The country's top appeal judges are failing to correct miscarriages of

My tenants who have claiming housing benefit whist earning combined wages of £700 have now been able to secure publicly funded Legal Aid. This is despite that fact that the Legal Services Commission were aware that they were under investigation for benefit fraud. This publicly funded Legal Aid was to fight rent arrears on a small claims track. I have also started proceeedings for repossession....

Ever since I moved onto a council estate a couple of years ago, I've suffered a lot of harassment from teenage yobs (mainly threats of violence, stone-throwing, minor assaults). Throughout this time, they've capitalised on the fact that I can't identify them.It's the kind of estate where there are seldom any adults on the streets to whom I can say "do you know who he is?" Also, as a relative...

It was a stupid,stupid idea anyway so hopefully Alex Salmond will take heed and not try to put this legislation through Parliament . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7646859.stm

I belong to a small Angling Association on a river that runs in to the River Clyde in Glasgow and they charge £15 a year . Very little is done about upkeep as far as can be seen,there are no notices on the river and as far as anyone knows there are no water bailiffs . I am presuming that they need to prepare audited accounts so could I make an FOI to see where all the cash goes .? Stuart

I have a PCN for parking on double yellow lines. The PCN states that the vehicle was observed from 11:14 to 15:17 but during that time the vehicle was driven away at least once and on its return was not in the same place as its original parking spot. The vehicle is a van and was used to carry tools and equipment to and from the address for a plumbing job so I maintain that it was loading and...

An FOI request was submitted by the Chair of a certain parish council to a certain district council for all correspondence relating to a proposed conservation area designation; the chair being opposed to the designation. The dossier he was supplied with contained a letter from a villager, countersigned by about 130 villagers in support of conservation area designation, along with signatures,...

Hi We have just had a visit from Vital Power on behalf of Scottish power saying they are going to put a electricity pole right outside our window which will spoil our view. They say it is part of low ground clearance scheme. This pole will be 2 metres from our house and right in front of an extension we plan to build. I have told this to the planning engineer and his department manager and he is...

Paedophile royal butler 'took victims to tea with Queen Mother' A former royal butler who admitted sexually abusing young boys took one of his victims for tea with the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, according to sources. Last Updated: 11:10AM BST 02 Oct 2008 Paul Kidd pleaded guilty to a string of historic sexual offences Photo: PA

Underage rape cases plummet after ruling By Dearbhail McDonald Legal Editor Thursday October 02 2008 STATUTORY rape prosecutions have plummeted in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Ireland's underage sex laws, leading to renewed calls for the reinstatement of an absolute liability regime

wrote in message ... They smell for the same reason most people do, because they want to smell their food, flowers, perfume and other lovely fragrances. Now, my question to you is "why do you stink?".

My wife's mother recently lost her husband. Their house was in his name but (sigh), he had no life insurance. A lawyer has successfully transferred the deeds of the house to the surviving wife. The wife approached the mortgage company to update the name on the mortgage and was informed that she would need to remortgage for this to happen. She has been paying the mortgage since her husband's death...

Is it possible to search for a will online - the person in question died about 2 years ago. Derek

CEOP claimed to me on the telephone that they campaigned against the use of the term 'child pornography' on legal advice ( they actually said that) and that it was not a legislatively defined or enacted or ratified (UN) term. http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ That has a search engine.

Neighbour has been asked to go in to the housing again (following her first call in for the parking/flag issue) - this time she's supposed to have been "calling" her neighbour she fell out with. I assume he's accusing her of being racist again. She's understandably annoyed as she hasn't said anything to him - she's not spoken to him since the parking incident.

WTF is Ishtar, Jingle********, special care on? He has far out 'mfi man' mfi man! In fact, mfi man has been silent, knowing he can't compete with the nutty wholeness.

Page last updated at 20:54 GMT, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 21:54 UK Teacher denies 'falling' for girl Darren Scott had been a pupil at Ysgol Aberconwy A supply teacher working at a secondary school in Conwy has denied telling a teenage female pupil he loved her. Darren Scott agreed while employed at Ysgol Aberconwy, he sent texts

Satanic Ritual Abuse evidence with information on the McMartin Preschool Case Adams, J. (2008). Case Studies of Ritual Abuse Survivors: From Abuse to Activism. In Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations, J.R. Noblitt & P. S. Perskin (Eds), pp. 541- . Bandon, Oregon: Robert D. Reed Publishers. Anderson, A. (2008). Letter from a...

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