Q1: "What does the team think will be the long term effect on London and Manchester of 'dirty' bombs of similar magnitude to the IRA's?" Q2: "Is there anything we can do to try to prevent it happening?" "The Todal" wrote in message ... Question 1: the long term effect will be that people will carry on with their lives just as they did...

I have come accrose a case involving a friend of mine. The first issue is that he is being sued in his own name for the actions of another. In short, he os being sued as an individual at a business address. The person who should be sued is the limited company which carries on business there. (Of which he is a minority shareholder and nothing more) Second, the claim seems inflated, even if there...

A friend of mine worked as a class room assistant on a short term contract. When that contract came to its end at the end of March, she was asked to keep working,with the promise that the contract would be renewed. She evenually received a letter confirming that her contract would continue from the end of her previous contract, though no the letter did not mention that the extension to the...

I've just been sent an electricity bill addressed to "the owner" of my house, for a property that has nothing at all to do with me. It appears that the people renting the property gave my address as the address of their (apparently anonymous) landlord. I presume these tenants have done a runner, and that the company is expecting me to pay the bill. I'm a bit curious: would I be liable, if I were...

An elderly lady was standing at a bus stop. She was run into by an electric pavement buggy driven by a gentleman in his nineties. Her knee was shattered, which left her mobility severely impaired and meant that a planned knee joint replacement could not now take place, due to the damage. The buggy was not registered as a motor vehicle and carried no number plates (as is normal). Weight of the...

"Steve Firth" wrote in message ... My wife and I were involved in an RTA last Saturday. I phoned the plod, but they declined to visit the scene despite being told that there were injuries. When we got out of hospital I phoned them again to tell them that we had definitley been injured and got told that we would...

The bloke inn the que behind me said that we don't have to pay our CT on set dates and we can hold it back and pay on the last day of the financial year if we wanted to and thats ok Completely wrong! You are legally obliged to pay the full amount on the first of April. As a concession Councils will allow you to pay in ten equal monthly instalments starting on the first of April. If you fall...

I work in software development. My current duties are analysis, design and programming, and my title is 'Technical Architect'. My company intends to do all this work offshore. My new job will be called Technical Architect, as now, but will involve only high level technical assessments and domain and product knowledge. All actual architecture, design and programming will be outsourced. My...

Hi, I am trying to gather evidence against an Ebay member to try and recover the costs of a transaction that has gone wrong. In short the advert suggested that I was paying £149.99 for a TFT monitor, what i actually got was a photo of that said monitor. On reading the auction again you can see it is cleverly worded to say 'photo'. Look at this link for the...

Sometimes, the jury is sent out of the courtroom while it is decided whether or not some evidence will be produced. In many American legal soaps on tv, the judge often turns to the jury and says "the jury will disregard that evidence!" Why? Isn't it suggesting that the jury are like little children, incapable of deciding themselves whether to consider that evidence or not? Why aren't they given...

This is ridiculous. At lots of stations they confiscate the ticket when you pass through the barrier at the station regardless of whether it's an out or return part. This includes places like Leeds which is actually served by MML. I'm not surprised they gave you your money back. "Peter Ramm" wrote in...

David Davies, shadow home secretary has jumped on the "compensation culture" bandwagon, made up largely of incompetent government, and media hysteria. See: http://www.conservatives.com/news/show_article.cfm?obj_id=114658 by way of example.

I have a piece of land which had no title documents. There was no previous registration and to regularise the tile and registration , a possessory title was gained to the land. This title became effectively absolute in 1999, but being slow to act I only recently decided to have the registration updated - well recently means I instructed a solicitor two years ago, and following phone calls and...

A public consultation is taking place, conducted by a local council. This consists of a single sheet of A4, with a questionnaire printed on both sides. Each sheet is uniquely numbered and prominently displayed on the "front" is an incentive, that all completed questionnaires will be entered into a draw with a single winning prize with a value of £50. A limited number of these printed...

Sincere apologies if this appears several times, having trouble with ntl news server! If anyone knows a better place to ask this let me know! Natwest, HSBC and certain other banks state on their promotional material for student accounts that the customer must agree to not have student accounts elsewhere. Is this legal? And do they have any way of finding out

From The Guardian 28 August 2004 Wheels come off 115mph speeding claim by traffic police Martin Wainwright A law student escaped a speeding conviction yesterday by the novel method of proving that his modest hatchback could not get anywhere near the 115mph claimed by police. Steve Lucas was astonished when traffic officers on the M62 trans-Pennine

The poster formally know as BORG wrote: Is this right that there is no set date apart from by the end of the year that we have to pay it, if so I'm going to stick the full amount in a high interest bank account and get the interest and then pay them at the end of the year No. You are required to pay your council tax for the year on 1st April. By concession, the council will let you...

I'm looking to buy a very nice flat but the problem is that the perimeter wall of the development which looks to have been built long before the flats is bowing and in danger of falling down. I have asked my solicitors about it but they don't know who owns it or is responsible for it. It does not seem to appear on any deeds. The seller's solicitor and the freeholder both deny any knowledge. A...

My employer has made me redundant. I have a letter saying that there is a consultancy period and if they can't find me an alternative job my last day will be the 10th of September. They haven't offered me an alternative job and I know there isn't one. I've got another job to go to. I have just been told that they want me to stay for another month to 'finish off some things', but if I do I will...

Now that Norwich Union are trialing their little black box can I ask All the data gathered by this little black box will be used to calculate insurance costs. From this information they will be able to determine everything about the movements of you car and hence movements of the driver. Obviously that information has a value. Who owns that information ? Is the information 'owned' by Norwich...