.... unveiled at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/olympics_2012/6718243.stm Is it just me, or does this look like a drunken man leaning over to be sick in a gutter? (Okay, this may be off topic for uk.legal but I see this as another great folly which will involve billions of public money to subsidise a huge loss)

I am surprised that a defendant can get a court case adjourned again and again within the last few hours before the hearing. This defendant, in his forties who already has an ASBO has been up for this hearing four times now, but at the last minute his defence applies for an adjournment. This causes considerable inconvenience to the witnesses who have arranged for time off work and then has to...

Hi all. I have just received a letter from a legal firm stating that I have no right of way on land to the rear of my property. Said land used to be owned by the council or local authority and was sold at auction in 1990. The letter stated that I must remove my garden gate and cease "trespassing". Now, I was thinking that since I have used this land as a short-cut for 40 years, then maybe I...

I wonder if anyone can throw any light on this grey area? I have recently received a document/letter from my employer outlining a bonus payment if I stay with the company upto a particular date. The director has not manually signed this document, instead he has chosen to include an image (graphic) of his signature. I however have signed this with ink.

kj wrote: johannes wrote: Steve Greene wrote: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/region_wide/2007/05/30/416291ca-11a3-4791-81d4-bcb3d65cf673.lpf MPs and unions have welcomed the influx of immigrants to the region. A national survey found a growing number of Eastern Europeans intend to stay permanently in the UK.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1268694,00.html ok, not a hotel room but the principle is the same. Presumably there will be DNA from anyone who stayed in that room previously; unless the cleaners are astonishingly efficient? The phrase "clutching at straws" seems to be growing in emphasis by the day........

'Action not jail' for paedophiles Child sex offenders should be encouraged to seek treatment rather than threatened with jail terms, the police's child protection chief says. Jim Gamble, of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), says answers need to be found outside the criminal justice system. He believes some paedophiles, including child pornography offenders, can be...

Hi All I hope you can help. When we moved into our current house, we noticed that the greenhouse was placed outside of the boundary lines by the previous occupiers and looks like its been there many years. When we asked our solicitor he said that the land was unclaimed or not registered to anyone, so we have continued to use it. for bonfires and the greenhouse. The land is not large, its...

Hi all. Hope you can help. I run a small building company with a business partner. We have a written agreement (not a JCT contract, - just a document I wrote - signed by both parties), to build a house extension. For the reasons below, we have now spent £10,000 of our own money and still not quite finished the job. There is approximately £5,000 left to be paid but only as a final payment. We...

Hi, i had a female staying with me for a few weeks, while i was at work, I would leave her my lap-top, so that she could surf, make internet phone calls to her home in Poland etc. I have since learned, that she has some how hacked my lap-top, and gained access to my email account, she went in to my email account after she returned to her home in Poland I thought i was safe, as i go to a web...

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:58:28 +0100, Steve Greene wrote: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/religion/survey+government+hasnt+told+truth+about+77/545847 A quarter of Muslims polled think the authorities involved with staging the 7/7 London bombings. It's a worrying picture that suggests a significant minority of British Muslims are alienated...

Why are there no class actions for these bank charge claims ?

I have a problem with an insurance company (Barclays, formally Woolwich). We had subsidence which is covered by insurance. The contractors have basically messed us about for several years. 1) They splashed paint on our new PVC windows. As compensation they have agreed to replace the bathroom suite, but despite agreeing this about 2 years ago, they have still not got around to it. We have...

If someone has entered a claim (as a claimant) in SCC and it goes to a hearing, can the claimant bring someone to the hearing with him to act as his representative (NOT a solicitor) to present the claim to the court on his behalf? (Assume the person he brings with him is more articulate, a better public speaker, and has a better appreciation of the principles involved.) FoggyTown

What has been reported in the news-journalism sector but not, so far, the more focussed of the UK's scientific press is that cannabis use has no real effect on task-competence in a physical environment when subjects are already suitably trained in performing such tasks. Whilst the likes of George Michael have done very little in recent years to clarify how the effects of a substance which stays...

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I bought a washing machine around five months ago from an online retailer. The machine was always very noisy, but I paid this little heed as I only used it when I was out of the house. A couple of days ago the machine failed quite spectacularly, displacing the top panel. A cursory examination inside indicates that a concrete ballast weight was incorrectly secured during manufacture (only one of...

"He is also reported to be intending to ask the cross-party Privy Council to review the case for allowing intercept evidence in court". Thus says the BBC report at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6715885.stm I thought all legislation had to be passed by Parliament but this way of doing things seems to short-circuit the system. Is this an abuse of the Royal Prerogative?

A bit off topic, really, but here goes. A colleague of mine has bought a new Dell laptop, bottom of the range model, but with Windows Vista. It runs pathetically slowly. I'm not very familiar with Vista, and I'm tempted to advise her to demand a refund or to format the hard disk and install XP. Is there a setting in Vista, somewhere, to tell it to move into a higher gear and behave exactly...

Ministers are facing a legal challenge which could force them to plough millions of pounds into prison treatment programmes because inmates are reaching the end of their sentences but cannot be freed because they have been unable to attend compulsory courses that are a condition of their release. Two prisoners are suing the justice secretary, Lord...