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Archive for September, 2009

Council Tax

Council Tax is one of those things that we all must pay no matter what, I hav had to pay a bill of 325 pound just because the council took absolutely ages to process our address.
People always ask the question what is it actually for when we pay tax on everything else, well I might [...]

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September 30, 2009

Road Tax

Everybody who drives will know the absolute pain in the backside known as Road Tax, we currently pay tax on our food, tax on our petrol, tax on our wages, tax on completely everything, the key one here is the tax we pay on petrol.      The petrol prices are high enough as it is but [...]

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September 30, 2009

A Court

In the court there are many cases which get brought to their doors, whether its petty theft or someone who hasn’t paid their bills.    I actually have to go to court on friday to be a witness to an accident which happened 18 months ago, a long story short a guy was driving like an [...]

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September 29, 2009

Solicitors

I have always wondered what exactly a solicitor does, I know that they charge a lot of money but other than that I have no idea what they actually do.
I have a few friends that are solicitors and I have never actually asked the question, Barristers on the other hand attend court and are what [...]

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September 29, 2009

Cleaner wins case against Barclays Bank

A former cleaner has a victory in her claim against the financial giant Barclays Bank, and she got a big hefty compensation which amounted to around 7000.      When she made her claim, it was for the unlawful and sensative subject of discrimination, as Barclays Bank had not accepted and refused to offer [...]

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September 28, 2009

United States Supreme Court Review

Justice Sonia Sotomayor joins the US Supreme Court as it begins its term on October 5th with a docket dominated by corporate disputes.
At the moment no review has been granted to employment law cases or environmental disputes, and for quite a while now no pre-emption cases either.
But there are maybe some completely unpredicted changes on [...]

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September 28, 2009

Services you pay for are like goods

Dodgy mechanics take note…..My car began to overheat, even though there was enough water and coolant in the radiator, the garage assured me they had fixed the fault, but 3 days later the same thing happened.
As you can imagine the mechanic was very unhelpful and said as he’d fixed the first  fault he would have [...]

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September 26, 2009

Terrorist removed from virtual house arrest

Our Home Secretary has let out one of the terrorists who was supporting the insurgency in Iraq and he fled Iraq in 2002 to come and live in Britain, he is known only as AE and is in his thirties.
Apart from helping the jihadist insurgency in Iraq, AE is supposedly (according to evidence) to be [...]

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September 24, 2009

Broadband Tax????

This is completely unbeleivable, I have just been reading about a new Tax that is to be introduced before the next general election, we are to pay £6 per annum as a Broadband Tax!     This is ridiculous and they should be ashamed of thinking up such a law, the worst thing about it is the [...]

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September 24, 2009

Assisting Suicide

A new clarification has been given to the law about helping someone to commit suicide, there has been a number of factors given, which will be considered when dealing with each case, i.e. if the accomplice was acting out of compassion or for their own gain (financially etc).
This all came under the microscope following Debbie [...]

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September 23, 2009
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