The authorisation of to use torture has taken a step closer to Bush, as the following extract from todays FT shows. The question for ulm is how does this affect the deportation of Hamza? Can any terrorist (real or suspected) be deported to the US in the light of the real and credible likelihood...

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There is no need for a Witness Statement to be either sealed, or time stamped.When serving witness statements one simply sends it direct to one's opponent. Witness Statements should only be filed with the Court if ordered; in any event they will usually form part of the trial bundle, and that bundle is, of course, eventually filed with the Court.

Hi, I have a T&C for my small business but its an amateurish hash up. I could do with something a tad more proffessional, should i just copy those of somebody in a similar business and change as appropriate, or is there somewhere on the web i can find docs i can alter to suit my needs or should i employ a proffessional. It a wholesale spectacle business if it matters, account customers, supply by...

My wife has been informed that her final salary pension scheme is being wound up, and that the replacement will be the setup whereby it becomes a personal pension and the company contributes as well as the employee. Can they change the pension scheme in this way without authority? She can't remember if she signed anything to say this was okay, but even if she did, she certainly didn't receive...

I have come across the ECHR case of LUORDO v. ITALY and BOTTARO v. ITALY 17.7.2003. Quote; Article 6 § 1 of the Convention, relied on in the Luordo v. Italy case The Court considered that this complaint was to be examined from the standpoint of the right of access to a court. It noted that from the time of the bankruptcy order it fell to the trustee in bankruptcy to represent the bankrupt in the...

I have an old school photograph which was taken with a panning camera resulting in a very long narrow strip. I tried Jessops and Boots to get a copy made but they refused on the ground that it was copyright. Fair enough, but this was taken about fifty years ago and there's no photographer's name on the print so I don't know how to set about getting copyright clearance. Even if the photographer...

Does anyone know the current situation regarding ISPs being compelled to record websites visited and e-mail headers sent. For example: Has any ISP implemented such a system yet? What details would be stored (I know e-mail content is not included)? When will the ISPs be forced to do this, if they do not voluntarily agree?

Please correct me if I am wrong, but did not the Attorney General have something to do with the ratification (if thats the right word ?)Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 ? Anyone know ?.

"smicker" wrote in message ... To set up an offshore ltd company with the shareholders hidden behind nominees is very expensive. What reasons can anyone think of against buying an off the shelf company with named shareholders who didn't even exist so that the company is completely controlled by the directors and the...

Hi--Can anyone help me with advice re the legal device called a "deed of variation", for altering the terms of a will? A relative recently died and left a share of his estate to be administered as a trust, to provide regular income for one of his (grown-up) children. Both the execution of the will and the administration of the eventual trust are in the hands of the same firm of solicitors. The...

"smicker" wrote in message ... To set up an offshore ltd company with the shareholders hidden behind nominees is very expensive. What reasons can anyone think of against buying an off the shelf company with named shareholders who didn't even exist so that the company is completely controlled by the directors and the...

smicker wrote: I sent a claim to the Queen's Bench Division and received a letter back saying the action had been commenced and a form N205B saying that the other side had until 11th June to reply and I never received a copy of the sealed order back. After a few days I realised a major mistake/slip up in that on the particulars of claim I had used the word Defendant instead of...

It's well known that if a person sets up a continuing authority of a credit card, he cannot later terminate it without the co-operation of the payee. What is the legal basis for this rule and does the same rule apply to debit cards? -- Alasdair Baxter, Nottingham, UK.Tel +44 115 9705100; Fax +44 115 9423263 "It's not what you say that matters but how you say it.

On Ebay a bidder with private feedback and a fair few negs/neutrals hidden bid on my auction so I blocked and cancelled citing the reason: "Private feedback = things to hide like negative feedback in your case" Member ID - dpdl23329 Just got this 'Q from Ebay member' - copied and pasted verbatim, headed "Legal Action": Hello, I placed a bid for £426, and you cancelled my bid because i decided

Is it "reasonable" (as per Art. 61.) for a Case started in December 1998 to have only go to a stage where still the defendant is seeking to amend his defence, having been Ordered to do so 3 years ago ?. Thanks

June 07, 2004 Executive tries to save face after slop-out blunder By Angus Macleod, Scottish Political Editor AN INTERNAL inquiry has begun into why Scottish Executive officials missed the deadline for appealing against a court ruling on slopping out in jails. Lord Bonomy ruled at the Court of Session last month that slopping out —

Sorry if this has been asked before, but me and my boyfriend was talking about this last night and he said that the electric in the wires coming to your house doesnt flow in but just surges in and out as its something called alternating currant. He also said that there was something called directional currant but that was stopped years ago as they had to keep putting more into the wires. With the...

This is part of a recent ECHR ruling; 31. It considers that permitting the applicant to represent himself in proceedings against a legal practitioner did not afford him access to a court under conditions that would secure him the effective enjoyment of equality of arms that is inherent in the concept of a fair trial (see, mutatis mutandis, Airey, judgment cited above, § 24). 32. In...

Earlier this year I took advantage of an offer from a "book club". The offer gave me a number of titles at a very low price and did not oblige me to buy anything else from the book club in the future, only to remain on their mailing list, which was fair enough. A couple of months after receiving the intro' offer books I received an invoice for twenty odd quid for some book that I'd not ordered...