If you modify your car without telling the insurers they may refuse to pay out in the event of a claim , which is fair enough. What about if you have bought a second hand car and are unaware of any modifications that may have been made by the previous owner? It's quite possible that ordinary drivers will be unaware if alloy wheels have been changed for example , and if there are engine...

I am trying to help someone in relation to the following: Individuals A, B and C are victims of a sustained campaign of harassment by anonymous individuals who attack in various ways by e-mail, internet posts and other means. An individual called D sent a letter in to the local newspaper that was published with name and address withheld referring the newspapers readers to web site X. Next day...

Hello; If I may, I would like your views on the following historical case: In 1984, a homeless single person applied to a London council and asked to be assessed for housing need. The applicant also asked to be put on the council's housing list as a prerequesite for going on the (then) GLC Mobility Scheme to try for a hard-to-let property. The council first discharged its obligation to provide...

I know this subject has arisen here a couple of times in the past but, unlike the poster of August 19th's thread I am in the unfortunate (one might say ill-considered) position of having to consider this matter retrospectively. I have been self-employed as a sole-trader for about 6 months now, and spent the previous few months prior to that in planning & preparation. All my work is local, in my...

Someone who knows who he is asked me to recommend a fearless solicitor, but their mailbox is full, so here it is: I don't think he likes lawyers that much either. His name is Paul Black and he runs a smallish firm here is Sussex. Paul Black Chelsea House,

My partner was driving home last night after work and was stopped and brethalysed by the police. Negative result. He was stopped because one headlight had just blown. Fair enuf. (Now fixed!) He was told to present his driving licence and insurance documents to the police within 7 days. Now he has lost is licence and cannot find it anywhere. So we have to

I know, two posts close together, but two different questions, and I thought it`d be better to keep the threads seperate. Basically, I`m wondering about the exact legality of supermarkets putting those big, stupidly sticky notices on cars parked in disabled parking bays without displaying their disabled parking badge. I used to have to put those stickers on regularly when I was working in a...

I just want to check whether it is okay for two of the parties to a deed to have their signatures witnessed by their son? We usually ask for an independent witness, to be on the safe side, but is the situation above okay? (It's a done deed, so to speak.) Geoff

I've noticed that an OUP book I bought this week in the UK has a copyright notice saying: © Fraser Sampson, 2005 Does that mean I can legally copy and post extracts from it freely for the rest of 2004? No.The copyright exists for, AFAIR, 70 years after the death of the author.

I'm not sure if this is really fly-tipping but it's close to. We live in an old terrace (1820's) of five houses. We are the middle house. We have new neighbours two doors up from us. They are completely gutting the house and have a skip on the road outside. Over night on Friday/Saturday a bed was placed in this skip. We assumed the builders put it there as they work at all hours. Today...

Is there a website somewhere with details of posts to ULM which have been rejected by the moderators? About 80 hours ago, I posted a response to the 'Limitations' thread, which hasn't yet appeared, so I was wondering if it had been rejected for some reason. -- Mark Dunlop

"Colin Davidson" wrote The advantage of this position is that you're more visible, and to be overtaken a vehicle has to pull out onto the other side of the road (i.e. it has to do what it really ought to be doing anyway), so you are -way- more likely to avoid nasty incidents due to motorists overtaking leaving little or no margin of error. I'd have thought that cycling like that...

Is 3% Stamp Duty (or any other amount of stamp duty) payable on property over £250,000 pounds left to you in a will on the transfer of the property in to your name ? Thanks

Hi everyone, I was wondering what the legality is of someone going round a car-park and putting leaflets under car windscreen wipers? I ask because a friend and I where discussing it, and we`ve both heard different things. I was told (when I was out moving trollies for a big supermarket) that it IS legal, but if people where to take them off their car and dump them in the car park, we could...

From "The Times" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1242598,00.html quote PAEDOPHILES and wife-beaters are to be tracked by satellite in pilot schemes to be announced today by David Blunkett. Trials of surveillance equipment will involve 120 sex offenders, wife-beaters and prolific juvenile and adult offenders and

On my way round the North Circular yesterday, I was chased out of the fast lane by a car behind me. He came up so close behind me that I thought he was intending to ram me, and I feared for my safety and that of my passenger. There was no room in the near-side lane to move out of the other car's way, so I was forced (I felt) to speed up, so as to get to a gap on the near-side and let this chap...

Although the recent alleged coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea has been portrayed as a rather old fashioned 'boys own' adventure, is this correct? Under the recent Terrorism Act 2000 legislation wouldn't it be more legally accurate to describe such an act as terrorism?

This is just a hypothetical question. I've been doing some reading into statutory sick pay and disability benefits such as incapacity benefit, and started wondering how these applied to the concept of holiday pay. As I understand it, statutory sick pay lasts for 28 weeks. At that point, if you are still unable to return to work, you go onto incapacity benefit. I presume at that point you and...

Disappointed in you lot. Advised TX2 to post here on the basis that he would get advice from knowledgeable people and you ignore him (A reason to call for improved ISP service levels?). Ok, the title does not sound very legal and the message was a little verbose. In summary: A friend of his signed up for ADSL with an ISP and, after three months, is still waiting for a working connection. The...

Hi, I moved into a flat a few months ago, and took a table top dishwasher with me. The dishwasher is in a kitchen shared between 5 of us, and the landlords also have access to this shared area (The landlords work in an office below, and have accepted large parcels and delivered them to the shared kitchen for me a few times since the dishwasher arrived) A few days ago I arrived home to find that...