I wish to take a company to court. I hired them to carry out a service. They never turned up and I had waste 6 hours of my own time sort out the problems this caused and hiring another company. Thankfully I never paid them as we were suppose to pay when they turned up. Can I still take them to the small claims court as at the moment they don't own me anything? Can I compensation for wasted...

Can someone confirm whether a public sector organisation has to publish details of tenders received under either the EU directive or freedom of information act, to an interested third party? Many thanks

I have had a number of phonecalls and a letter from the estate agent who I informed two months ago that I was withdrawing my property from the market, and placing it with another estate agent. I had an offer on my property for 4 months up to the end of December, and when the purchaser did not exchange contracts I informed their solicitor and the estate agent that the property was being...

When I occasionally receive rejection messages from the Moderator I have no way of knowing which message is being rejected. As I send quite a few posts I can't tell which post is being rejected. I have just come across a post on the group which I thought had been rejected. Can the system be improved to at least include the header to assist rejected posters?

Scenario. You pull off a roundabout, and accelerate away from the roundabout. You accelerate up to 38 mph. You then realise your mistake and slow down to 30 mph,( you are in a 30mph zone). But you got zapped before you slowed down. So, concequently you are sent a fine. Opinion.

I've been registered with the Telephone Preference Service for many years and have re-registered last year, just to make sure, but I keep getting nuisance calls from two marketing companies. The problem is that I sometimes work shifts and need to sleep during the day/evenings. If I'm needed urgently, I get called on my ex-directory land-line phone. Personal calls are always to my mobile and...

Surprising at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand the most blatant Human Right infringement has fester under their Lordships' noses for years. It is the public's access to an effective legal remedy. On Sunday, the Duty Clerk for the out-of-hours Queens Bench judge refused to listen my legitimate plea for access to the Judge. I was seeking urgent relief for an extremely time sensitive...

Is it illegal to use counter-surveillance products in the UK if you believe the authorities are wire-tapping phones/houses/cars etc? And what does the law say on any individuals who attempts to remove them or in any way tamper with their use (presuming of course they have been lawfully placed there) Also, could anybody suggest who the best counter-surveillance companies are in the UK?

I am in the process of replacing a Seagate drive that failed within a week of purchase. Understandably uppity about it now, I checked my warranty duration. It turns out that the warranty only lasts 4 years instead of the 5 as advertised. I contacted Seagate about this, and they said that this is because the warranty starts from the day the drives are shipped out to the retailers, and not the day...

Today's BBC news has a constable on it saying DNA evidence shows that the probability of someone not being a rapist is one in a billion. Yesterday one of the TV channels showed a documentary where I lost count of the number of times the interviewing detective used the same "one in a billion" phrase. Please tell me this is just a stunt for the cameras and they aren't allowed to say it in...

I got a fixed penalty notice from Camden council this morning... for "Failing to drive in the direction shown on a blue sign" It came complete with a picture of me sitting on my motor bike waiting to turn right at a set of lights, it's taken by "a camera operator who was observing in real time" The lights are at the junction of Great Russell Street and Bloomsbury Street London WC1. Both these...

Hi, I work about 1 hour from home, (2 hours round trip). There are trains that go to my work but to use the trains I would first need to go to London, (waterloo), make my way to Victoria and then go back up again. The trip would take 2-3 hours at least, (4-6 hours round trip). My car has been very reliable for the past year but now it has packed up. First I took the day off, (I had no car),...

A friend of mine in the US was stopped by the police for not having his headlights on and subsequently arrested for drink driving. In court his attorney argued that state law requires headlights to be on 30 minutes after sundown and that according to the time on the ticket he should never have been stopped in the first place. The judge agreed and threw the case out. Are courts in the UK as...

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:15:04 uk.legal.moderated dave I am considering taking legal action against a dentist with whom I am relatively newly registered (6 months). I registered with him after my excellent previous dentist retired. Having followed this with some interest, dave, it would be interesting to receive any thoughts you...

Our neighbours have a dog that barks for hours. We can hear it clearly through the party wall. We've tried the friendly "asking" approach to no effect. Is there anything legal we can do about this? Yes. Keep a detailed diary and then contact the Environmental Health department of your local council.

Also posted in the other place: I believe that I have been libeled a number of times on newsnet - a number of postings made by the same individual. If it is relevant, I believe that some of his actions demonstrate a possible mental health problem. I understand that the person who has libeled me has no assets - perhaps a second hand car at the most.

When a business sells part of its operations to another company, what is the status of services to customers which are already under contract? For example, I have a window cleaning and letterbox polishing business. People pay £100 a year (in advance) to have their letterboxes polished. I decide to sell that part of the business to another company. What are the customers' rights? If the new...

I don't know what to do any more. My son took out an offer on Sky at the beginning of last year which was 2 digiboxes at the price of one etc. The contract is I suppose the point but was basically that both boxes were to be at the same premises. I lived with a very techy partner who actually wrote the software for their satellite. My son has been accused of moving the boxes from our...

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:05:03 +0100, Curious wrote: There is a VAT scam doing the rounds which involves the import and export of (mainly) mobile phones. Apparently this has been going on for at least four and possibly six years. snip But what about the smaller "pawns" in all this? They have made money on a transaction and only retained their actual profit. No fraud has

I have a tenant who has moved out of my property recently and for whom I am still getting numerous letters. From opening some of them to satisfy my suspicions, I know they are demands for unpaid bills, unpaid credit cards and CCJ notifications to name but a few. The tenant also smoked heavily despite my request for non-smokers to the agency when I began the agency, which caused me a lot of work...