This isn't an legal query, just a newbie one! I posted a request for help last night and received some very helpful advice. I would like to be able to post a reply of thanks to everyone but when I do I can't see it in the original discussion page? Help! What am I doing wrong? Cheers

About 10 years ago I was in my early 20s' and flat sharing with friends and others. We generally neglected to pay council tax and other assorted bills (very guesstimated at £7000). Inevitably 10 yrs later I have ended up receiving letters from a debt buyer asking for information about my residence at one of my old address'. Would anyone offer any advice (apart from "Told you so!") as to my best...

Can anyone explain how to get access to CCTV footage. My car was parked in a car park at a local activities centre on saturday. During the time it was parked another vehicle collided with it and drove away without leaving details. We kno there is CCTV footage which will identify the vehicle. The Activities centre will only release the footage to the Police and the Police refuse to look at it...

Irish Doctors In Ireland Hello, Has an Irish Doctor ever given evidence against a Fellow Irish Doctor In An Irish Court.? OR Do Irish Doctors Give Evidence Against Fellow Irish Doctor in Irish

I'm after opinions on what to do about an oak sapling in my next door neighbour's hedge. I have a conservatory which runs up to the boundary, and stops just a few inches inside the actual boundary. Conservatory end wall extends into a 6 -7ft garden wall, also just a few inches inside the boundary. This screens my swimming pool. Neighbour has planted leylandii, to screen wall, and keeps them...

I notice that George Gershwin died in 1937 - so presumably his work is fair game for copying/modifying/performing in the UK and Europe. But I gather there's something weird about US law that extends copyright there for another 30 years or so..... does this affect the UK at all? -- Mike Scott (unet at scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England

A company I know of has just told their employees that no further holidays will be granted to any employee for the rest of the year (year runs march to march I believe) As I understand it this means that some employees will be unable to take to four weeks holiday they are legally entitled to, others won't be able to take the extra holidays they are entitled to as per their contract. Some...

I bought a Bosch dishwasher to replace one they sold us 10 years ago. It's what's called semi-integrated, so it's designed to have a cupboard door panel installed on the front of it. It arrived on 25 Jan, and I installed it. The only trouble is that the door has a tendency to swing up and knock you in the teeth as you load it. I rang Bosch and asked them to send a guy out to look at it. The...

Hi, We have a neighbour who played dirty trick on me. He applied for extension of his house and in his Planning application, he knowingly showed encroachment about a Metre into my backyard. So, frightened of encroachment, we spent £2000 to build a fence on our side which he should have done to replace the broken fence. He was laughing that he need not spend money and also got a strip of...

I want to offer businesses 'updates' and 'modifications' to their existing sites, (such as adding a search tool, form mail, flash stream video/mp3) but will this breach any copyright to the original author? Thanks in advance Del

Hi My boss had some building work carried out as part of his business. His Ltd company paid £10,000 up front for certain work. This work was carried out to a poor standard. Partway through the work, (before the quality issues became apparent) he arranged to have more work carried out related to the first job. The builder agreed verbally to take property instead of money for payment. The...

How long can a claim be made via the CSA. i.e. if they had a chance say 3 years ago to make a claim, but didn't and now makes a claim, can the 3 years be backdated? What if the youngest child is now over 18 and the parents were separated 5 years ago, can a claim be made for the 5 years? thanks

Hi, It has transpired that somebody (associate or employee of my landlord, not sure yet) has entered my rented property in order to retrieve a key, that was visible on a porch window ledge, to let themselves into an outside toilet that is attached to my property. As far as I am concerned the toilet is part of the property and this person has no rights to be using it (although they probably...

I live in a row of 4 terraced houses. We have a communal path which runs the length of the houses at the back with small gardens on the other side of the path. Under this path is an antiquated sewer pipe which then runs down the side of house A and attaches to the main sewer system in the road. (I live in house C). Yesterday I noticed that property B have blocked drains and whatever goes...

Hi all. Hope you can help. An unmarried couple own a property in Spain in joint names. However, their other joint UK financial dealings mean that they have decided that it is now fairer that only one of them owns this property. The owner to which it is being transferred is not intending to sell it and an official transfer to sole-ownership would effectively mean huge costs as this requires an...

Hi I was wondering if anyone can offer some advice? The company I work for went into administration and ceased trading about 6 months ago. The company was bought by another company once it had gone into administration and subsequently changed it's name. Around half the employees were kept on with the new company. As yet the employees do not have contracts under the new company. Does this seem...

I'm involved in a dispute with the police about a road crash where there ought (IMO) to have been a prosecution but wasn't. I now need to prepare my 2nd IPCC appeal. (The first was successful but only told the police they had to investigate my complaint properly.) For various reasons, for preparing this appeal, I need to get access to copies of the various witness statements. There were two...

Residents own the company that manages the estate and a Managing Agent is employed. I have had run-ins with the Managing Agent in the past and they have not sent me notice of AGMs for several years. I thought they may not have held any, however they recently replied they held one last summer "as usual". If they have deliberately not informed me in advance of any AGM (in case I

I recently sat in on a mediation in a case involving a private client suing a large corporation for a large sum of money. The client's legal team thought he had a 70% chance of winning (and a 30% chance of losing). So, the client had a 70% chance of receiving a large sum, and a 30% chance of paying out a largish but not huge amount for costs. This puts the client in a difficult position,...

Hello, Unintentionally I'd parked across a gateway to a garage, sounds silly and it probably was, unfortunately the thing I paid the most attention to on getting out and shutting the door was the kerb, since it wasn't dropped, my brain apparently didn't feel the need to follow anything up any further (I could also see a 6ft stone wall to the front and side of me and failed to notice the...