Questions tagged [united-kingdom]
For questions specific to the United Kingdom. Note that the UK does not have a common legal system across its jurisdictions - consider using [scotland] or [england-and-wales] or [northern-ireland].
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Are police charged with managing protest scenes with rival factions bound in their conduct by the PSED?
Polly the police officer is charged with monitoring and policing a large demonstration which is evenly split between pro-X and anti-X factions. Or alternatively lets say it is dominated by ...
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Are outward facing security cameras’ footage on the outside of ambassadorial missions subject to subject access rights?
Bob walks past the front entrance of the embassy of the republic of Zwakilostan which is somehow under diplomatic protocols Zwakilostani sovereign territory. The cameras point outside toward the road ...
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Would or could it be a public order offence (racially/religiously aggravated or otherwise) to burn or mutilate a national flag or a holy scripture?
In the UK, Alice burns a Quran on a public pavement.
Bob tears up an Irish flag.
Do either of these commit public order offences?
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Does the UK have non-driver license photo ID cards?
Alice doesn’t drive and doesn’t desire to obtain a passport, however she would like to have a photo ID with which to (for example) buy alcohol.
Can she obtain from DVLA (or any other body) an official ...
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Is the principle of making extra allowances for amateur litigants stronger in the UK?
Amateur litigants, also called pro se litigants or litigants in person perhaps among other terms, are decidedly supposed to be actively accommodated and assisted by the courts in the UK so as to “...
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Can I be prosecuted for a possibly illegal demolition done before I bought the property?
I've just found out that the property I'm buying had a small derelict house on it which the owner tore down a few months ago. He claims the building is below the 47m squared minimum under which a ...
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Are tribunals fully adversarial?
In England there is a system of tribunals as well as various courts. Are they entirely adversarial as well as the courts are?
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How corrupt does a contract need to be for a country to invalidate it?
It is in the news that there is a case in the UK High Court regarding a contract between Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) and the Nigerian state. It involved gas extraction, but the ...
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Can accomplices in the same crime have contact before trial/during jail time?
This is just pure curiosity. Under UK law can two people who are charged with the same crime (that they supposedly committed together) have contact with each other?
Fictional case: a woman and her ...
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Is it legal for the police to take you away from home and abandon you without means of getting to safety?
It is reported that police arrested a man at his home in the middle of the night, drove him three miles away and "dearrested" him nine minutes later. He was left with no money, phone and ...
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Crimes commited in foreign country with capital punishment
So the death penalty does not exist in the UK, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I beleive our laws also state that a person may not be extradited for prosecution if the conviction of the crime will ...
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What is the difference between a money order and a money judgment?
Presumably there is some distinction as it is made in the name of the so called register of orders fines and judgments. So what is the difference?
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Pay Additional Dwelling Supplement if buying a new main residence?
This applies to purchasing a home in the UK:
If I were to buy a new house that will become my new permanent residence, but I don't sell my current home and instead intend to let it out, do I need to ...
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In UK, how hard can you hold a builder to their quoted price?
I was hoping to have some building work done in England and got two quotes: I would have liked three or four, but it was quite enough work to get two. To my surprise, they different hugely: one was ...
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Is it legal to do lots of imports £1 below the limit to not have to pay import duty?
Recently (since Brexit?) the UK tax law has been changed to require foreign online retailers like AliExpress to charge UK VAT @ 20% at the point of sale.
If an order is placed for > £135 then as ...
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Legality of charging customer service for one’s time spent dealing with them
An acquaintance has a practice of charging companies’ customer service departments £50 per 30 minute increments of his time spent addressing issues with them on the phone. I don’t think he’s ever ...
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Can a parking management company change the 'reason for issue' of a ticket
I moved into a block of flats and was given a parking token by the previous resident. The token has the date of the issue, the name of the block of flats, but no expiry date and no registration. The ...
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UK cladding remediation
In the old format of the Leaseholder certificate,
Does landlord not being responsible for the defect, having net worth of >2MN, yet the maximum liability for relevant historical safety defects for ...
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Accepting payment terms and conditions
I am in U.K. If I book a holiday/vacation and pay a deposit am I now bound by the payment/cancellation terms? (NB: There was no tick-box to say “by booking you accept our terms and conditions.” or ...
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If one claims scientific justification for a belief do you lose protection for that belief under the Equalities Act?
This recent excellent answer discusses the Grainger test, and states:
(ii) It must be a belief and not an opinion or viewpoint based on the present state of information available.
Particularly, a ...
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Double Jeopardy in the UK for crime committed abroad
This question is about Double Jeopardy in the United Kingdom, focusing on the England and Wales jurisdiction.
Pretend the defendant commits a sexual crime in Spain, where one of the following happens:
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Contractor does work on the wrong house
I saw a post online where someone (in the UK) is claiming they accidentally went to the wrong house to replace windows and the homeowner let them in, let them perform all the work, and then thanked ...
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Dual criminality with an MLAT?
Pretend someone in England (United Kingdom) sends a message containing racist words to another person in the same jurisdiction. They are later reported to the police and arrested, I would assume under ...
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Relation between transport security investigation and police investigation
The MAIB (the maritime transport safety investigation board of the UK) has recently published a safety bulletin about liferafts that weren't properly serviced by a service station.
The full report is ...
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Two questions about UK's strict 6-month patent grace period rules for public disclosure at a trade show [closed]
Is Technology for Marketing @ Excel London 2023 a valid trade show for a UK pre-patent publication grace time? Also how to establish ownership?
In the UK, it's possible to get a grace period of 6 ...
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Lodger not leaving property (UK)
I have a property that I rented out to two people in a joint and several manner in England.
One of the named tenants left and someone else took their place and paid half of the rent to my managing ...
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In the UK, is it legal to call yourself Sir if you haven't been officially decorated as such?
As an example, imagine an ordinary Jonathan Reez residing in London. Would it be a civil or criminal offense for Jonathan to ask others to call them Sir Jonathan Reez, print business cards with that ...
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Legal underpinning of prescribing placebo drugs in the UK
I recently discovered that 97% of doctors in the UK have prescribed placebos. The general context seems to be within the mental health space, but I can’t find any firm restriction to the type of ...
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Do jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience?
It is in the news that someone is being prosecuted for holding up a placard stating: “Jurors: you have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to your conscience.” outside the
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What are the most severe possible sentences faced by the three accused Russian spies?
Three Bulgarian National alleged Russian spies have been arrested and charged in the UK. What is their worst possible outcome on the other end of this?
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Is prosecutorial discretion subject to the public sector equality duty?
The Equality Act 2010 creates a duty on public sector entities to have consideration for equality in all decisions they take. Does this bear on prosecutorial offices and their exercises of ...
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Is there precedent for defamation/moral injury due to public ignorance in the UK?
Due to a separation, I've heard mention of my ex-partner thinking about an "Occupancy Order" which basically sets out who can live in a marital home.
These are, as it turns out, distinct ...
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Legality of privately Bibby Stockholming to save land costs
It seems that the principal impetus of moving migrants onto barges like the Bibby Stockholm is to save the costs of renting property in which to accommodate the migrants on dry land.
Rental costs are ...
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When does s3(1) of the Defamation Act *not* apply in malicious falesehood cases?
To successfully bring a claim for maliicous falsehood in the UK, one has to show that one has suffered "special damages", which are actual damages suffered as a direct consequence of a ...
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"In person" in UK practice
If the record of a UK civil hearing identifies a party as being "in person", does that mean that the defendant was physically present or that the court had not been informed that the ...
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Which law rules polygraphs inadmissible in UK?
Where does it say that polygraph tests (lie detector tests) are inadmissible under law in England and Wales?
I am mostly interested in their usage being disallowed for criminal (both Magistrates' ...
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How do you find what regulations have been made pursuant to a particular enabling legislation in the U.K.?
How do you find what regulations or other statutory instruments have been made pursuant to a particular enabling legislation in the U.K.?
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What is the disposal of premises?
Part 4 Equality Act 2010 makes extensive references to the disposal of premises. What specifically does this concern?
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Have any regulations been made under s22(2)(b) EA2010?
Section 22(2)(b) of the Equality Act 2010 allows for certain regulations. Have any been made thereunder?
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What is the judicial rationale for introducing the grainger test to qualify beliefs?
Section 10 Equality Act 2010 seems very clear that “belief means any religious or philosophical belief”. (Emphasis added)
Yet, the employment tribunal in Grainger set down a five limb test which ...
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What are (respectively) “Lords temporal and spiritual”? [closed]
In the opening clause of every parliamentary act seems to appear this phrase. What does each type of Lord refer to?
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How long are UK Crown Court Hearing Recordings kept?
As the title suggests, I am wondering how long UK Crown Court Hearing Recordings and transcripts are kept because in order for court transcripts to be requested, the recordings need to be still ...
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Is there any sense in which the City of London Corporation is a corporation wherein other local authorities are not also? [duplicate]
The City of London Corporation includes the word "corporation" in its name. But in the operative sense, are not all other local authorities also such “corporations”?
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Can I opt out of UK Working Time Regulations daily breaks?
The Working Time Regulations 1998, PART II, Regulation 10 says
Daily rest
10.—(1) An adult worker is entitled to a rest period of not less than eleven consecutive hours in each 24-hour period during ...
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What can I do about illegal parking? Semi-peaceful protest, Scotland [closed]
There are cars that park on the pavement on my street. It's been an issue for years. If there are bins out then the pavements can be unpassable for people walking and the pavement is always completely ...
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ABRA Powers violative of human rights act
Parliament tomorrow passes the Arbitrary Bullocks Removal Act 2023, entitling (but crucially not obliging; in other words, bestowing a power though not a duty) the minister of Justice to arbitrarily ...
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UK GDPR Transcribing calls
I'd like to understand the rules around automated transcribing calls in the UK, from a B2B perspective.
GDPR seems quite clear that if you are recording calls, video and/or audio, you must get consent....
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What is the story with declarations of incompatibility and the otherwise ostensible binding Ness of the human rights act?
My understanding was always the governments couldn’t actact contrarily to HRA rights.
On the other hand there is this regime of judicial so called “declarations of incompatibility” which are albeit ...
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Consumer rights [closed]
I’ve recently purchased a part for my washing machine it did say product out of stock and usually takes up to 10 days but 16 days on still nothing go to tracking and it shows no info available. When I ...
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Why are UK celebrities not prosecuted after admitting to drug use? [duplicate]
Frequently, UK celebrities and politicians publish memoirs where they admit to breaking laws related to illegal substance use, yet they never seem to be prosecuted after openly admitting it. A recent ...
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