In the building where I live, there's a flat which out on an assured shortold tenancy. The assured term is 6 months. The initial 6 months expired end of July '04. After that I agreed to renew the tenancy on the same terms. Now I need the flat back soon, because I want to do a lot of work on the property and then sell it. His current assured term ends end of Jan '05. Can I legally give him...

From The Times 7 December 2004 Boy, 11, banned from streets. An 11-year-old boy who made his neighbours' lives a misery became one of the youngest people to be handed an Antisocial Behaviour Order (Asbo) yesterday. Aneeze Williamson is banned from every street on the Windhill estate in Shipley, West Yorkshire, except his own and the town centre after shouting racial abuse and carrying out...

Saw a Mini Cooper being driven down the M4 yesterday. Arabic licence plate; no European/Latin letters or numbers. Nothing to indicate counrty of origin. UK Legal?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4076195.stm Guy is launching an appeal since his trial may have been prejudiced by publicity, and the warrant used to search his flat was possibly flawed. What is the aim here? He at no time has denied killing the young lad and chopping him up to dispose of the body (and unlike the BG case, the evidence was very much conclusive), so why appeal?

Is the use in statutes of symbolic variables, as in the use of A and B in the following section of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, a recent development? 3(1) A person (A) commits an offence if- (a) he intentionally touches another person (B) (b) the touching is sexual (c) B does not consent to the touching, and (d) A does not reasonably believe that B consents. --

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:30:17 +0000, (Steve Firth) wrote: Naming no names, but a UK ISP advertised their services as follows: "ADSL Home offers unlimited usage" "Unlimited broadband usage for just £21.99 a month with ADSL Home"

According to a privacy journal (EPIC): (www.epic.org) Pressured to give examples of the necessity of data retention for law enforcement, Donner admitted he had not told the 'full truth' to Parliament in the previous meeting when he pointed to 'the success of mandatory data retention in the UK'. He now acknowledged there was no legal obligation to retain data in the UK, only a self-regulatory...

My friend's mother was recently admitted into a nursing home, having been told that she only has months to live. Up until the move she was renting a flat via an estate agency, and was in receipt of housing benefit. My friend has moved in to her flat for the duration (i.e. until she dies). The agency have found out that the tenant (his mother) is no longer living there. The housing benefit...

I posted a message here regarding my problems with Britannia Music, but didn't get any replies. Basically I sent them an email offering to return the items of their introductory offer in exchange for removal of the debt, as I read he http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,145-1043071_1,00.html I got a vague response from them saying that "The necessary adjustments have been made to your...

"Miss x" have worked for "company y" for many years. 5 years ago "miss x" was forced to step down from grade 3 to grade 2, and take a 25% rate cut to the bottom of grade 2 payscale, on return from maternity, because the boss thought women with children couldn't maintain the same commitment to the business. "Miss x" wakes up to her rights now, upon discovery of pay policies, and realises she is...

Just a couple of questions...I'm interested in hearing your opinions on these issues. Seeing how people have been brought to court for trying to defend their property, supposing you had a hungry pooch on guard duty in your home and it mauls an intruder. Are you or the dog in trouble? I am not a big person and I've been told that some debt collectors try to use physical intimidation to extract...

Today I sent a recorded-delivery letter to an organisation which is repeatedly threatening to send a representive to visit my house. (They have no statutary power to enter my property, nor any legitimate (moral or legal) reason to do so.) In this politely worded letter, I clearly told them that they must not make any unsolicited visit, and that to do so would cause 'great distress' and was...

Hello, Local Asda store has increased price of Lion King DVD. They have simply put new price (£14.97) sticker on top of old (£8.97) sticker. Have been informed via uk.legal that there was a law introduced in the 70's to prevent this type of thing. Does anyone know which (if any) law has been broken.

I will appreciate your advice on the subject. I have signed with my business partner a lease over commercial premises (estate agency) on with personal names and with our personal guarantee about two months ago. Now I am resigning of the company and I would like my name to be taken off the lease. How easy is to do that and what shall I do?

In an RTA, a pedestrian was walking in the middle of one of the carriageways at night (and there was nothing stopping him from walking at the edge of the road). He was wearing dark clothing with no illumination whatsoever. He was walking with the traffic flow (although traffic flow was very sparse) so that he couldn't possibly see any vehicle which might be approaching him. The pedestrian was...

I seem to be plagued at the moment with people Cold-calling me from the USA with advice to buy shares. In some cases this is reasonably well-thought-out advice to buy fairly well-known stocks. In other cases, the advice is to buy tiny companies. I think 'boiler house', but the firms are invariably on the SEC list. My response, being public-spirited is to keep these guys on the 'phone as long as...

From The Sunday Telegraph 5 December 2004 Police chief sacked over buried cash A senior police officer has been sacked following the discovery of £75,000 in banknotes buried in his back garden in Barford, near Norwich, during a money laundering investigation. Inspector Norman Cox, 57, was dismissed from Norfolk Police after an internal inquiry. He was not charged but received a caution.

Hi All, On 1st Sept it became apparent that my employer was in financial difficulty (they didn't pay us). Directors were unavailable for comment, office moral plummeted. Eventually the local manager conceded that people could go home if they so wished provided they remain in touch and return when/if payments were sorted out. No payment was ever made. On the 29 Sept the company went into...

A company with which I am connected took out a contract for web hosting with a well know hosting company. The terms of business required the customer company to pay by direct debit monthly. The customer company gave the required notice to terminate the contract as it had found a cheaper hosting provision elsewhere. However, the first hosting company continued to extract money from...

Hi there, I wonder if you could help in a little query of mine. As a trustee member of local public hall and cinema we are aware that we are responsible for children who attend the cinema without their parent(s)/guardian. As a small cinema with very low attendance on children coming to see films, we are attempting to optimise the cinema's future by thinking up new ideas on how to get more...