My ex wife recently died we have been divorced for 8 years and she had the residency order for our children. This now leaves me to now look after my 13 & 9 year old children. She had remarried and at the time of her death she had over 25 years service in the RAF. From what I believe her husband will receive a lump sum and a pension from the RAF. The children will receive a reduced pension of some...

Hi This seems unfair but I've no legal basis to argue this one; I'm hoping someone can come up with one. My better half runs her own business (recruitment) as a Sole Trader and has used the same site to advertise for the last 4 years. This year for the first time she's had some difficulties (a few months with no income at all) and spoke to the accounts dept at the site who agreed to let her...

I returned from holiday on 24th Sept. to find a letter from the local authority threatening recovery proceedings for NNDR for the periods 04/06-03/07 and 04/07-03/08. I have never received the original bills nor any reminders/threatening letters etc. I immediately called the authority to state this and asked for copies to be either sent/faxed/emailed to me. At that time I also asked for the...

After being fired, in my view unfairly, I appealed via my company's internal complaints procedure. This process took some two and a half months but was -- not to my surprise, as I anticipated a stitch-up -- ultimately unsuccessful. For want of having had legal advice, I believed I had three months from the end of my dealings with the company to lodge a tribunal application. This I did, filing my...

My partner has a secnd charge on his ex's house which we have just found out she has sold. The agreement states that he will get the % when the house is sold. Will this happen automatically from her solicitor or will he have to get a solicitor to contact hers?

I would be really grateful if anyone could advise. My boyfriend currently rents but is planning on moving in with me before Christmas. Having previously rented myself, I assumed he would just need to give a month's notice like I did. However we've been looking at his tenancy agreement and now I'm not so sure. He's been in his place for a few years, and it turns out that he has been signing...

Hi - It's a long story but I am in the middle of a divorce - estranged spouse still lives in the same property and refuses to leave. Spouse had admitted to me that my phone call conversations with other people (family, freinds, solictor etc) have been intercepted and recorded - presumably on the home land line (cordless phone) - but I am not sure if my mobile calls (company phone) have also...

please can someone help,due to a error,time my son had spent on remand was wrongly calculated,today it was corrected by the judge using the slip rule,which meant my son should have been released today,his barrister told me he would be released either today or on monday,on contacting the court to see what was happening,i was told 3 different dates ranging from in 40 days time in my first call,then...

Hi all, hope somebody could offer me some advice please. To cut along story short, last year I was arrested on suspicion of theft/handling after buying a set of golf clubs from a person, that a distant friend put me in touch with. I traveled to the persons address, and looked at the clubs, which I ended up buying at a fairly knock down price. I was slightly suspicious of the clubs as I left the...

Hi All, Just been noticing some of my debit card payments which you make when in shops etc have been taking there time to come out of my account lately, instead of the normal couple of days. One i had come out yesterday on 3rd oct was for a purchase made on 12 sept. Now im not trying to get out of paying for it, but i am concerned under this present climate i need to keep an eye on my...

I have been working with a company for over 1 year now and have found another job. Due to a number of problems I have had with the company I requested that I leave with immediate affect. This was verbally agreed to by both my manager and the HR manager. So as I saw it I left the company with their agreement on the day i handed in my resignation. With their word I sorted out a start date with the...

Hi I'm after some advice on what i should do. My grandmother who i lived with all of my life passed away last september. We could not find a will, so my father applied for administration although she always told me she had made a will out. I have now found the will and it basically does not include my father in any way shape or form and actively states he should have nothing and that everything...

Hello, Earlier this year a relationship developed with someone from work - it never became a romantic relationship - but it was a two way welcomed thing, lots of flirting, but I was messed around a bit. During this time the individual left me off important work emails, took credit for my work and began to undermime me infront of my team. This person also rubbed their foot against mine in an...

I have a 4 bedroom student house managed by a letting agency and want to manage it myself asI think the agency is overcharging me. the tenancy agreement is an assured shorthold and each time it is signed to commence on the 1st July and terminate at the end of June (12 months). I have the signed tenancy from the agency and it looks quite straight forward. However, I don't know if the agency...

Hi I hope someone can help me with this. I currently live with my ex partner in the house that we jointly own. When we were together he always earned a decent wage and he paid the mortgage and the bills while I brought up the children and worked part time. The relationship broke down last Xmas. He is still paying the mortgage but has stopped paying the utility bills. They are all in my name...

Got an interesting question not seen posed before. I live on a private estate (all rented flats) where we don't have individual or allocated parking. Theoretically there's plenty of parking if it wasn't for the shoppers and workers who use our car parks as a means of free parking for going to town shopping or even all day for work. I kind of sympathise with the management company who have...

Howdy Folks, Firstly, thanks for taking the time to read through the post. I'm posting this on behalf of a colleague at work who is a non EEA national and got married back home about a year ago to (obviously) another non EEA national. Her spouse came over to the UK about 10 months ago as a dependant of my colleague (spousal visa) and they have been living together since. My colleague is in the...

A young man I know is asking me for advice. He was convicted of an offence for which he was given a six month prison sentence, suspended for two years, 3 years probation and has to attend a workshop one day a week. The offence itself was not that serious, but he had a previous conviction for a different offence several years ago for which a non custodial sentence was given, hence the suspended...

Loaded Minibus stolen, taken to local farm, empted out into the yard and loaded up with farmers gear. Minibus recovered the next day, farmer reclaimed his stolen property from it. SOCO lady photographed my emptied out equipment back at the farm, noted that it was indeed mine (£8000 worth of camping equipment) and then she went on holiday. Over a week later, she returned from her hols 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,...