What is my legal standing?

My partner and I have ben living in a room in a house for a few months now.
I am not legally a tenant, I pay towards bills, while the room is in my partners name.
We have been given only 20 days notice, but are now being threatened with immediate eviction.
Her arguments are very imature, aggressive [...]

law. I have been caught speeding. I have bee charged with exceeding 70mph on a dual carraigeway(91mph) The video evidence has me doing 82mph. Is this indiscrepency enough to get me off.

I am a Commando on a seven month tour of Afghanistan. I will not be home until late April early May 2007. I have no accsess to a lawyer. I would be very gratefull if some one could clarify that a 9mph discrepency in the charge and the evidence presented by the video reader, is [...]

I was caught speeding on the motorway! But…

Like i said i was caught speeding on the M1 today on my motorcycle. Yeah hands up i was over the limit, but come on? who can say hand on heart that they have never ever went above the speed limit?? anyone? Well when i was sat in the police car he explained to me [...]

What legal rights from the list below does not apply to teenagers in other parts of the UK at age 16?

A teenager in Scotland is classed as an adult at 16. So at 16 a teenager in Scotland can do any of the following from the list below. I want to know how it differs from the rest of the UK, so what from the list does not apply to teenagers from any other part [...]

Household fuel prices are predicted to reach an increase of 40% this winter. Do the government have any legal authority to prevent fuel companys from passing on the entire cost increases to customers?

I understand that these companys have to protect profits, but they are showing record profits for the year to date so are in no danger of bankruptcy. It is surely unethical to allow such profiteering when people will be facing choices between heaing and food? Can these companys be forced to absorb some of the [...]

My ISP has contacted me today to offer me a home visit by one of their engineers to improve my broadband speed. The problem I have is they have never provided anything like the speeds they bill me for and they would like me to make a payment to them for

a visit so they can quickly and efficiently improve my speed (they are so confident they are prepared to guarantee it).If this is the case can they first of all demand further payment to provide a service they have been charging for and not delivering?And if they are admitting they could have "easily" provided the [...]

What action(s) can/should you take to enforce a direct debit guarentee when the company at fault is unwilling to honour it?

BT debited my account no less than 6 times in a month for an amount not owed to them which means they now owe me over

Legal question

Living in rented accommodation. Several people in the house are storing things in the stairway next to the front door. The local council have declared this to be illegal and have demanded that these items be removed (this happened a couple of months ago). Now our landlord says that some workmen are coming today to [...]

Arguments for/against legalising Prostitution?

I have a debate coming up soon and was looking for some insight I think my opponents will take the stance that it’s the person’s choice to pay for sex and it doesn’t affect anyone else so why not make it legal. We’ll be arguing that it has links to organised crime, stds and sexual [...]

Are there any laws…

… that force companies to update faulty software?
I have an Archos 605. The damn bugger has faults in the software, just small ones, but nonetheless faults. I’m not the only one, I know everyone else on the Archos forums to have it as well with the latest firmware.
With the release of the new Internet Media [...]

What can i do if i’m not happy with the surveyors report on the house?

3 months after moving into our house we discovered that the roof that the surveyor said was fine, was actually leaking through to one of the bedrooms through the light fixture, causing a week long blackout (though it could have been much more serious). We also found out that what the surveyor said was the [...]

Car parking problem

I recently asked a question about my rights to park. I’ve now found out that the car park is private land, owned by my landlord. What I would like to know is if they try to enforce a residents only parking scheme, would people who have previously used the car park for X amount of [...]

How easy is it to draft a binding, legal disclaimer?

For example, if a shop assistant sells me an after shave product, but makes me sign a disclaimer saying that I am aware that this might hurt when I apply it, or it may cause a rash, swelling or even chemical burns, would this disclaimer be binding if I subsequently suffer from burns?
Are there any [...]

Can I take my house off an estate agents books?

I rashly signed a contract to allow an agency to market my house. I was unhappy with how it started – he never explained their terms to me at all and it turns out there is a 3 month lock in and I cant go multiple agency. i know stupid not to check but I [...]

the letter below is obviously a con. should it be repoprted and who to?

i did reply but only to get the person’s tellephone number. i did an i.p. trace of the email and it’s in africa, quell surprise. i have not made ant other contact with the person and do not intend to.
MY NAME IS DR PRINCE KOFFI DIRECTOR OF AUDITTING DEPARTMENT IN CENTRAL BANK OF GHANA [...]

I have just had a letter from my previous landlord

They have advised me that becuase i removed from the rented property, my curtains that someone has taken the lead off the garage roof, I moved out of the property back in September, can they fisably blame me for something that could of happened at anytime whether I was living there or not, would they [...]

selling house but charge on property about to commence. I exchanged contracts on my house on 7th December and complete 4th Jan, however just found out that a request for a charge on my property was put through on 5th dec,

will the charge come through before i actually sell the house on the 4th on January. I was taken to court last month and told to pay a certain amount of money to pay of my debt, however in the confusion i did not pay on the correct date and was sent a letter [...]

if 2 people are executer of a will, what happens if one refuses to do a thing and the other one has to do all the paper work?

do both legaly have to executute (wrong word?). is it a legal obligation as they signed a legal document to be executer? if so what happens if one decides to do nothing?

What is the most ridiculous law?

What is the most ridiculous law in this country…my favourite from abroad is that it is illegal to look at a moose from above in a certain part of canada…are ther any which can compare to this in the UK
Countries mentioned in this Post: United Kingdom

Space Invaders – Illegal Use of IP

Following the out-cry over the Space Invaders ‘Invasion’ Installation at the Berlin Museum and GC Game Conference – I wanted to throw open the issue about can the artist’s claim he is not using the Taito Intellectual Property (IP) illegally.
[This question has nothing to do with the morality of the theme chosen]

is this legal

after a few boaters the other night got a drunk man out of the canal and may have bruised him in the process as they just grabbed him by his clothes and arms as the canal was starting to freeze over he has stated that he is going to sue them for the brusing and [...]