Is there any advantage to using an online conveyancing service, and can any be recommended? Given my last two experiences with the ordinary kind, I find it hard to understand how they might be worse, but I'm always wary of underestimating people's potential for uselessness. Daniele

Since moving in to a new property about 6 months ago, several bailiff notices addressed to previous occupiers have been sent. Most relate to unpaid parking tickets etc. One recent rather boldly worded letter states "removing goods (including motor vehicles) even if you are not in attendance. OK, I don't have a car so they can't take that away, however do they have the right to break down my...

As subject... I've managed to retrieve all the pieces and was wondering whether my bank will replace it for me? TIA

I heard a freelance website designer talking to his mate the other day. He was very fed up about a certain client for whom he had built a beautiful site with many alterations to text and images along the way. The client failed to pay the price of some £1200 as agreed but said he would pay it off at £20 per month. The designer was very angry and said to his mate that he intended to point the...

(D.M. Procida) wrote: Is there any advantage to using an online conveyancing service, and can any be recommended? Given my last two experiences with the ordinary kind, I find it hard to understand how they might be worse, but I'm always wary of underestimating people's potential for uselessness. Daniele

HI We are moving to Austria next week and through a shipping company had organised a container to collect our belongings on Friday. We had received the sales invoice and a letter saying the time the container would be coming. We paid the amount this morning by electronic transfer and then this afternoon had an e-mail to say that the hauliers had made a mistake with the price and it would be...

I am an Italian working in London and early in July I married my American girlfriend in the US. She was soon granted an EEA Family Permit by the British Consulate and was able to join me in London. The only problem is that the Family Permit on her passport will expire in mid-January and we are not sure what to do next. Back in July an immigration solicitor we hired told us he would apply for a...

wrote: On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:25:03 +0100, wrote: =20 =20 I'm not sure I understand that course of logic in the slightest. It is not uncommon to re-mortgage in order to improve a property or any number of other reasons.

A representative from my bank asked if the purchase of my house had been registered with the Land Registry. I knew it was bought in 1982 and assume that all houses sold then and subsequently would have been registered. Is this true ?

Err, is this on topic?

Dropped into a well known National chain of stores today to get the tracking adjusted on the front of the car. All well until it comes time to to pay. At this point I am *required* even though I'm paying by cash to supply my name and address details "for their computer" which cannot proceed further without it. I refuse, as I invariably do as I'm sick of the piles of junk crap I get through my...

If I've accrued some business expenses (directly related to my job function, and provisioned for in my contract), could the payment of these (entirely reasonable) expenses be refused due to an unmentioned time limit for claiming?

As you are no doubt aware, Emmer has finally confessed to husband Will that baby George is not actually his son, but the progeny of his no-good brother Ed. Ed and Emmer, of course, seem to think they are going to have a new life in Australia with George. Since Will is George's legal father (if not his biological one) how far can Emmer take the boy without Will's consent? If the child does...

Just had a phone call from school, can I come in and remove my=20 daughters earrings or bring in some plasters to cover them for PE. What's the legal standing here? Is this the Law or merely a school=20 rule? Should the school provide plasters? Aside from that how silly is this, this sort of crap is driving me mad...= ... Steve

{R} wrote: I am 58 and the wife is 50, we have lived in a very nice terraced house in Tunbridge Wells for 30 years. There is a 9000 UKP mortgage left on it and it is worth 220,000UKp at the moment. We have no wish to move, ever, and are extremely unlikely to do anything but die here. What is the best way to raise money, using the house as collateral to give

I read a little about this in a car magazine and wondered what other people thought about it. Personally I don't see how, even if the two cars were racing, a driver can be held responsible for the death of another driver and/or passengers in a separate car unless involved in some sort of collision or it was proven that one driver deliberately ran the other off the...

I have an SENDisT hearing next week about my son's education. (The usual sort of thing - we think that he cannot survive in mainstram education, but the LEA do not want to pay for an alternative.) Fortunately, we will be represented. I have read the literature from the trbunal and viewed their video. My wife and I will get our views down in writing, so we can answer questions off pat and will...

Mother wrote: Slightly related. Some people find it better _not_ to pay off the mortgage entirely, leaving the bank/building society holding the deeds. Leaving 50 quid outstanding, and paying interest on that works out cheaper than paying a bank to store your deeds. Yes, I am a tight old git. The problem with having them store the deeds is that they might still charge you to see...

How does one oppose a solicitor acting in conflict of interests from representation of a claimant in a high-court case. (In this case the solicitor is a witness in a dispute between two parties but is representing the claimant and not the defendant). Can it be done at a case management? What kind of documents need to be presented and to whom?

In message , {R} writes I am 58 and the wife is 50, we have lived in a very nice terraced house in Tunbridge Wells for 30 years. There is a 9000 UKP mortgage left on it and it is worth 220,000UKp at the moment. We have no wish to move, ever, and are extremely unlikely to do anything but die here. What is the best way to...