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A man in Stockport is trying to get his dog back, after he gave it away.
Great story. But the legal aspects are misreported, at best.
Firstly, there is no such law as the “Return of Goods Act.” Assuming what is meant is the Sale of Goods Act 1979 — it’s not relevant. Section two […]
Words I’d never thought I’d utter: I have a reason to watch Sky News. OK, on the web. The reason being is that Sky News is livestreaming the UK Supreme Court.
When the Supreme Court moved into its new home in the Middlesex Guildhall in 2009, it had been fitted out for recording of […]
For a long time, HMRC have taken the view that where the law allows a “reasonable excuse” for the late filing of a return — be that a self-assessment personal tax return, Corporation Tax return, VAT return or PAYE return — the reasonable excuse must relate to an event or situation that was exceptional and […]
I finished the Human Rights section of W201 — my current OU Law course — around a month ago. After some complaining about it when I was starting off, it turned out to be more interesting — and a lot more relevant — than I first assumed it would be.
The section of the […]
The posting on Twitter of the allegations underlying the recent series of superinjunctions provides a good time to take a look at why, in my view, the injunctions are a better thing than you might think.
I’ll do this by working backwards to the injunction. But first, I need to establish one concept.
What is interesting […]
I tweeted yesterday my first frustration with my current Open University law course: the individual and the state. I’ve hit the first bit that feels like filler — which interestingly, isn’t the point where other students have complained that something feels like filler.
Other students complained much earlier on. Right at the start […]
This isn’t a UK case, but I could see the same happening here — as the article states, all the elements of a contract seem to be present:
Instant Messenger Conversation Modifies Contract; Signed With ‘Awesome’:
Many people don’t quite realize that almost any kind of “agreement” can be seen as an enforceable contract […]
There is a furore at the moment, including what is going to be a populist debate in the House of Commons today, suggesting the UK should ignore the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v. The United Kingdom (No.2) [2005] ECHR 681 and continue to deny prisoners the right to […]
The process of trying to capture what I’m learning is a process that is still under a degree of trial and error, here. When I was at school and last studying at university level, it just kind of went in. I didn’t care about the process. Now, a few Open University courses later […]
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What Ken Clarke is actually guilty of
I don’t know. Because I haven’t listened to the interview, or read the transcript.
Neither, it seems, have the vast majority of commenters on Twitter or elsewhere. From what little I do know, there is a lot of reaction out there to what people believe he said, rather than what he actually said. Coupled […]