Is my employer supposed to write to me at the same time as they write to my doctor to obtain a medical report ? I expresed a wish to see it when they wrote to me to obtain pemission to write to my doctor. At a meeting, I asked that I was allowed 21 days to see the report but as they did not write to me to say they had wrote to my doctor for the report, they seemed to dismiss this and said they...

A woman in her 20s is sexually assaulted whilst drunk. She can barely remember what happened as she was almost unconscious, but there were two witnesses who were very indignant and put a stop to it. The assailant was a man much older than the victim, who had been drinking with them all and appeared friendly up until the point when he committed the assault. There is an additional factor...

At the bottom of my garden is a pool. My deeds state that my boundary finishes at the waters edge, my neighbour's state his finishes in the middle of the water. Now having been in the property for a little of 7 years the pools is silting up and weeds have now taken over, all that remains in dry weather is the stream that flows through. It seems to me that, in not too many years, the pool...

If I come across a lane marked Private Do Not Enter and I do drive down it, how serious is that? Alan

I was reading here http://northernireland.shelter.org.uk/advice/advice-3777.cfm that I can buy the freehold on my house which I own outright. It's a semi-detached house, not a flat. It's not expensive to purchase the freehold, and I know there are many centuries left on it.

Hello all. I am about to defend a civil action for breach of contract. In the contract, there is mention of a set of architectural drawings which, I contend, were innacurate. Is it possible to force the architect to appear in court when the case is heard, in order that I can ask him some questions about these innacuracies?

I posted a message awhile back and am thankful for the responses. The original message is he http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal.moderated/browse_thread/thread/e72ab26a73ead28e/1c6a223a3c98b277?lnk=gst&q=hardstanding# Matters have moved on aat a slow pace - I wrote back to the landlord accepting the price quoted of £1000 for his consent (he marked the letter "without prejudice"). I have...

Is there any legal liability for a Tribunal panel (of three members) which issues a judgement which is demonstrably perverse i.e. seriously at odds with the evidence and the law? For instance, if this causes one of the parties loss, and is intended to do so, can this be considered 'Conspiracy to Defraud' or Fraud, or any other such ? I'm assuming these people have some sort of immunity which...

An underlying principle of an Employment Tribunal is that it should ensure the parties are on an equal footing, and that a party can choose (or may have little choice other than) to represent themselves as a layman. I suggest it is employers, particularly those with many employees, who are more likely to called to Tribunals than any individual employee. The employer, and moreover presumably...

A friend of my daughter's was declared bankrupt in May of this year but my daughter has told me that her friend is spending money like water and has even booked and paid for a holiday next year after she is discharged in May 2008. My daughter asked her friend how she managed to have so much spare money and was told that although she had been made bankrupt, no one had ever contacted her and...

Looking at the unfair terms in contract regulations ( http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1999/19992083.htm ) Schedule 2 (1) (n) of The Regulations says a term which may be regarded as unfair, has the object or effect of limiting the seller's or supplier's obligation to respect commitments undertaken by his agents or making his commitments subject to compliance with a "particular formality";

I've some damage to garden wall and car, from a vehicle hitting them. I have stacks of excellent photos of everything to get it sorted out. I called my car insurance & they can sort out the damage to my car, but when i asked about my building damage (a wall) they are not interested, they said call your buildings insurer. There is an assumption here that I have bulidings insurance, (I have) so...

wrote: I've some damage to garden wall and car, from a vehicle hitting them. I have stacks of excellent photos of everything to get it sorted out. I called my car insurance & they can sort out the damage to my car, but when i asked about my building damage (a wall) they are not interested, they said call your buildings insurer. There is an assumption here...

I live in a block of 21 flats, last year we employed a new managing agent to take on the running of our shared free hold company. We have just received a renewal contract for next year and there are several areas of concern, some of which I would question if they are legal practice. One such point regards our reserve funds (fairly healthy in excess of 25k). he states that interest earned on...

We've got a customer who wants her booking fee of £500 returned, as her wedding has been cancelled. The way we schedule payments is a 33% booking fee at the time we're booked, 33% payable three months before the wedding and the balance due on or before the wedding day. We call it a "non-refundable booking fee" because we understand that in many circumstances, the refund of a "deposit" can be...

I'm trying to understand the legal requirements for marking out residents' parking bays in a Controlled Parking Zone, and in particular where a double transverse line (at right-angles to the kerb) is needed, as shown at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/SI/si2002/023113bm.gif . On one side of my road in London there is a long series of bays interspersed with yellow-line loading gaps. (A to B on the...

Can anyone explain to me the legal position regarding a law firm which (for example): can be shown to have advised their client to ignore/break law(s) in order to conceal matters of public health & safety? exploits their familiar relationship with an Employment Tribunal to induce the ET to ignore ET Rules of Procedure? If the employer has been harassing an employee who made a protected

hi all, could anyone please help, i have been to court over a 7 year long workload of doing building works to my ex partners house, who i lived with in her house, the judge didn't want to address my evidence of me paying half the household bills but did agree with me doing the works that totalled £25,000.00, but said "any D.I.Yer could do it" he dismissed the case and i now am told to pay costs...

Straighforward questions, but I'm struggling to find a source online that can answer them. In essence: Can a council, in provision of after-school childcare, make a profit from the provision? I have no idea whether there are constraints in the way that councils recover costs for this kind of social provision.... Can they charge different rates for eg parents in receipt of child tax...

I'd appreciate people's views on this: I'm looking into a case for a friend who was "caught" selling an event ticket on ebay. She was selling it on behalf of someone else so she is not party to the contract. But tickets apparently had small print on them stating that they should not be sold and, further, that they remained the property of the event holder at all times. The event holder is...