My first post here,hello all. A bit of background first. My wife is a mortgage advisor and worked for one of the big banks for about 18mths.She has worked in the industry for the past 15 years.She has in the past 6 months gone self employed as a broker still FSA regulated and has all the correct qualifications. When she was at her last job in the bank she made a personal record of clients...

"A friend" who works for in the medical profession told me about a patient who arrived for an appointment. He asked for his name, but as he was foreign couldn't understand it, so asked him to spell it. In response he offered his driving licence to copy it from. But on seeing the licence, the picture was nothing like the person presenting it. In fact not even the same skin colour! I said "Well I...

Hi all, hope someone can help. My brother has recently been suspended from work, on a charge of gross misconduct, although he hasnt been advised what exactly the gross misconduct was. His company van, and phone were imediately confiscated. Let me explain the details. My brother works for a very large national landscaping company,, and has done for at least 15 years. He runs his own team of...

According to a recent article in The Guardian, Nationwide's credit card customers are all getting replacement cards with new account numbers, and customers who pay subscriptions with their cards ...will have to tell each of these companies their new number. They will also have to change details on any bank accounts used to pay credit card bills each month - including those with...

A relative inherited a large sum of money but died before the money was actually paid out (some nine months later). What happens to this money?

Can anyone help me what the term 'assessable damages' can include in relation to a negligence claim concerning a 14 yr old boy with learning difficulties. Could the term include expenses incurred by the parents, e.g. Home tuition and home cleaning costs (incurred by the need for his constant 1-to-1supervision) while child is unable to attend school? Would it make a difference who paid, i.e....

I posted this on the other forum by mistake so my apologies if you have already read this on there. Eleven years ago I was a director of an IFA company. We were in a network who took the commissions we were due and paid us out after taking their cut. Many of the commissions were on indemnity terms whereby we were paid the first 4 years commission up front but there would be a clawback of...

I am having correspondence with my employers whilst I am off sick. Hopefully not but could end up at an employment tribunal. I tend to use email but they tend to send the main stuff on paper. Is email accepted as readily as paper by courts and tribunals?

A persons puppy was attacked and injured pretty badly by 2 unleashed and unmuzzled Rottweilers in a public place. The police are reluctant to bring charges as to quote, ' The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 states that it is only dangerously out of control when a dog attacks a PERSON'. Reading the act this seems correct but this surely can't mean that no offence is committed when 2 Rottweilers off...

Whilst at dinner tonight, someone raised the matter of their daughter pulling over the side to a bus lane to give way to an ambulance with sirens on. The daughter then got a fine with a camera picture of their car, which unfortunately did not have an ambulance in the picture. Unable to confirm her story of an ambulance causing her to pull over to the bus lane, she paid up the fine. For future...

Hi I have been asked by a colleague to act as a 'friend' at a disciplinary hearing. I have never done this before. The colleague is not a union member. I understand the colleague received an email deemed unacceptable by the employer. The colleague has only forwarded it to his own home email address to himself and to no one else. I have yet to see the email but I understand it consists of a...

Hi all, I was hoping you could help me with this problem: about 15 months ago my landlord stole my deposit: he gave me a cheque that bounced. I sought help from lawyers, but they all said it wasn't worth suing as the amount was relatively small compared to the fees I'd have incurred. Now I have changed job and a colleague, lawyer, has offered to help. I do want to sue the thief who stole my...

Hi, new here. Not sure if im posting in the right place but, I wondered if anybody could point me in the right direction to the Boyd V Profaze 1867 case. I read in another part of the forums that it might contain an answer i have been looking for. Thank you

Hi, My father and step-mother made identical wills - with the first to die leaving everything to the other and the surviving spouse to leave everything split between the children on both sides. My father died six months ago. My stepsister and I are now executors for my stepmother's will. Unfortunately, I have very good reason to think that my stepmother is planning to change her will. Firstly,...

Hi all, I was hoping you could help me understand what would happen if a couple of Italian citizens, married in Italy (in a city hall: no religious marriage) but resident in England, were to divorce. Which court would have jurisdiction: the English one, as both reside in England, or the Italian one, as they are both Italian citizens? If there are assets in both countries, would one court have...

This question is obviously triggered by current events, but I'll try to keep it hypothetical. Part of a police constable's job is to investigate crimes, gather and analyse evidence in the interests of justice. Not only that but the prosecution has a duty to disclose all relevant evidence to the defence. Given those two assertions, I can't see how a police officer revealing

Section 13 of the Data Protection Act says : 13 Compensation for failure to comply with certain requirements (1) An individual who suffers damage by reason of any contravention by a data controller of any of the requirements of this Act is entitled to compensation from the data controller for that damage. (2) An individual who suffers distress by reason of any contravention by a data...

I am in dispute with a former colleague to whom I had given some work and paid in advance. The work was not done and it was necessary to cancel the commission and place it elsewhere. I am seeking the return of the advance and intend following the small claims court procedure. My question is this: for previous projects, I paid the funds into the defendant's girlfriend's account (he had...

Sorry I know its been covered before but could anyone help with some of this please? I am applying to set aside a judgement as I returned my defence form but heard nothing else until my employers received a notice to declare my earnings for a possible attachment order. I am contesting about 50% of the amount claimed as part of it was previously paid by building society cheque which was cashed...

A family I know appear to be being very much let down by social services. The family, a mother and two sons, all have learning difficulties. The older son has just turned 19, the younger will be 15 in September. I think the older child has a diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy and though having no obvious mobility problems clearly has behavioural problems. The behaviour is so bad that he has wrecked...