According to the news reports this evening, British police in Portugal are videoing groups of English football supporters in Portugal, gathering evidence of offences such as racial chanting and lewd behaviour, which, although not evidence of offences under Portugese law, are intended to be used to bring the offenders to book back in the UK with a view to obtaining banning orders against...

Long shot but worth asking! I now have custody of my five kids and noticed that we (myself and my ex-partner) have never received CB for our last born child, despite sending them her birth certificate etc. I'm chasing this up, copy birth certificate etc, but I can only get the claim backdated 3 months, not from when she was born three years ago. I realise this is the law and I've got no chance...

Please bear with me for a tad complicated situation. My boyfriend is the executor of his mother's will. His mother died of a tumour on her brain stem (as I understand it) in 2000. His mother and her husband lived in Scotland and her will was made under Scottish Law. My bf lives in the UK. My bf is the sole executor of the will, a copy of which is sitting right here on the desk. Her will states...

From the Independent: an opinion on the legality of the Iraq war, from the former deputy legal adviser to the Foreign Office (who resigned over the issue): http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=537972 -- Jo Lonergan

Hi all, Recently hired a campervan and had to put down a £300 cash deposit (fair enough)..... As would be expected it had to be returned clean and tidy. When I dropped it off the other day the guy commented on how clean and tidy it was inside and said they would check it over and return the deposit by cheque.

From BBC news website: Embattled police chief suspended David Westwood Humberside's Chief Constable David Westwood who was criticised over the Soham case must be suspended, the High Court has ruled. Home Secretary David Blunkett had gone to court to challenge the authority's refusal to suspend its chief constable.

From The Guardian 28 June 2004 Daughter to give evidence in Billie-Jo appeal Steven Morris The ex-wife and daughter of Sion Jenkins, the deputy headteacher jailed for killing his foster-daughter Billie-Jo, may for the first time give evidence at his appeal which begins today. Jenkins' daughter, Lottie, 17, is likely to be called by Jenkins' legal team

I keep getting calls (several a day) offering to sell me stuff. This interrupts my work and costs me far more time than just the length of the phone call. I work as a sole practitioner, not through a limited company. I have registered the number with the telephone preference service. Is there any more I can do? Is there anyone I can complain to? As an example, I was telephoned today at 15.47...

I have just been looking at a web page about the law in the uk and I found the following about the law and the internet, does it apply to the news groups and why does it not apply to them, is it because the groups are run or operated from America or something like that? Malicious Communications Act 1988 Section 1 This is the wording of this section as amended by Section 43 Criminal Justice and...

I'd like to clarify something. I ordered some computer equipment from the USA. It came via FedEx and I was required to pay duty. FedEx prepayment telephoned me and I made the payment, before they delivered it (they wouldn't deliver it otherwise). Then it was delivered. Later on I received another invoice, for a different amount, also relating to duty. I thought it was a mistake (stupid me) and...

Does anyone know what a section 41 certificate is in divorce proceedings?

Hi all, Wonder if someone can help with the following potential problem. My house has some grassed area that belongs to us and is located to the side of the house. It is an open plan development so there is no wall around it and it is bordered at the bottom by the footpath. It's about 12ft long and five foot wide so not very big but the kids love playing on it.

In article , ({R}) wrote: Fortunately my reproductive days are over but my two sons 24, 20 will not be giving their kids any vaccines. I don't blame them either. My son has had the 'necessary' vaccines during his first 16-12 months, but has not had, nor will he be having, the triple-MMR vaccine.

In the Interlocutory Order dated 02 June 2004 the respondent to a sex discrimination claim was required to serve on me within 28 days a list of all documents they held "relevant to the triable issues." It is now 03 July 2004 – 31 days later - and this list has not been received. 1 – Do I have to RECEIVE the letter within the 28 days or is it enough that they POSTED it within 28 days and that...

I'm reading another newsgroup an d they're talking about Offal. With various health scares I thought there'd be a nice precise legal definition in this country for offal. Can anyone help me find one please?

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I wonder why the Law Society is so very scared of Regulation ?. Maybe worried about what they may find ?. June 04, 2004 Regulator would threaten freedom, says Law Society By Frances Gibb, Legal Editor SOLICITORS will issue a tough warning today that the proposed shake-up of the legal profession could see lawyers brought under

A headmaster has instructed parents not to harangue school bus drivers and taxi drivers for parking/waiting on the zig-zag lines outside a school because, according to him, they are allowed to wait there. Can such "officials", connected with picking up and putting down children, park/wait on these zig-zag lines?

I have a flat that I rent out. Husband has been a tenant for quite a few years. He paid the deposit. He subsequently married, and he and his wife lived in the flat together for several years. They have two children. Tenancy agreement (shorthold) is now in joint names of H + W. Today I got a letter out of the blue from the wife to say that she had reverted to her maiden name, her husband was...

I have a neighbour, who even the most kind hearted of people would regard not only as a nuisance, but also a small minded paranoid bigoted fwit. His lates wheze is keeping bees, yes, in a garden of a small semi on a residential road, with lots of kids around. Bees are not of course a problem, per se. In fact as I keep lots of things that need polination, they are a good thing if kept by some...