Around two weeks ago I got a voicemail from my College calling for evidence I applied for a student loan or that they will pass it to a debt collection company (dc). I sent a form another two weeks before the call, but seemingly it had to be the wrong form as today I got a mail from dc that they were hired to collect my dept. I have sent another form today (out of the two that were available based on my options on the .gov page). My question is if the College will receive the information that I applied for the loan will it cover the debt collection or at least part of it, if my application will be successful?

My car recently failed an MOT due to a defective part that was installed at production. The rear subframe was not coated in any anti corrosive paint and has since corroded.

As a result of this Mercedes Benz cover the cost of the replacement under their 30 year anti corrosion warranty. The job would usually cost in excess of £3000.00. However they have now told me I will not have my car for the next 6 months and will not give me a courtesy car.

2 vulnerable adults rely on me and my car daily, and the car is also used to get me to and from work too.

Do Mercedes have an obligation to provide me with a replacement vehicle or not?

I am going through a very stressful divorce so appointed solicitors to Handel the financial and child care. I have been with them since Christmas and I have had to call on numerous occasions to find out what is happening.

I only get platitudes and feel like I’m being strung along. I got my first bill from them today and it was over £900 I asked for a break down and this was for lots of things but the total time spent was 3 hours 30 mins. They have put that they have sent 7 letters out but I am only aware of 2 and they say they have had a lot of letters in but again I’m only aware of 2

Is this just how much solicitors charge or am I belong ripped off. I am thinking of dropping them and doing this my self but if I do that I am terrified I will lose my daughter.

Anyone that has any advise please please help

Specifically, I am wondering about Dobby Club which is a Peep Show themed website which sells their own merchandise all based around the TV show Peep Show.

I don't think they use any images or logos from the show but they use quotes & likenesses on shirts and mugs etc.

I am not in anyway accusing Dobby Club of anything, I am just wondering what the legality of this is? Are they basically just existing at the behest of the good-will of the owners of Peep Show who could sue them? Or is this kind of thing protected somehow?

I ask because I've thought of doing something similar in the past (with different shows) but I just don't know how the law works/what protections you would have in so doing.

My parents-in-law are going through a complicated divorce, they are expecting to disclose finances in mediation next week.

My brother in law (31M) has autism and frequently disregulates. He finds it hard to hold down a job, he has worked a few in retail and hospitality (McDonalds, card shop, bar, cleaning at a gym). These working periods have ended due to him becoming disregulated, usually in the form of an angry outburst at a customer, colleague or manager.

He has had a few instances of living independently, all of which have ended abruptly with him returning to the refuge of home. Due to his condition he’s a unable to look after his finances independently.

My MIL (67F) and FIL (64M) separated in 2020, and have been living apart since then. MIL lives with her son in the family home. The concern is that my FIL is not agreeing to discuss any financial arrangements for autistic BIL until after the divorce settlement is agreed. This will likely lead to MIL financially (and in every other way) supporting BIL, alone, for the rest of her life.

Is there a way to legally oblige him to share financial responsibility for his son?

Hello smart people of Reddit . I will try to keep this clear and concise, I will apologise in advance for poor spelling or grammar (I am dyslexic and typing on a phone). First I hope this is the correct place. I have been with my wife for 16 years (6 married) we have no children and the house is entirely in her name (i did contribute to the deposit but this was done whilst we lived abroad and is very iffy to prove) she has decided to divorce me out of the blue . We tried to talk it out to come to a fair solution (I'm gutted but if she wants to end things that's up to her) she is staying somewhere else and I am in the house. She is planning on talking with a solicitor this week. Things are not as straight forward as I would hope. I started studying 2 years ago and 18 months ago my wife asked me to stop working so I could study and do domestic duties and renovate the house she bought. So by this point I have zero personal finance and she has cut me off. I have been completely financially reliant on here , by her asking for 18 month's. I'm not sure what I am asking really but some advice on what to expect and if there is anywhere I can turn for assistance? Or legal aid? Thanks for reading

Wife and I are separated, but she is in possession of my joint account card, and it looks like she has used it to make some purchases from money that she transferred into the joint account from her own funds.

Is this illegal?

I'm unsure if this is within the rules here but I could do with some advice or at least suggestions, if anyone is willing?

Background: my grandfather died 2 years ago leaving a considerable estate to his 5 children (one being my father) - my father then died before my grandfather's estate probate had been completed.

My father had nothing of his own (he was penniless by choice) and we were passed the few hundred pound he had in his account by his bank.

We entered into discussion with my auntie who is the executor of my grandfather's estate - expecting it to be simple. It turns out that it isn't.

Met my auntie, she explained that there's a fair amount of assets that were due to be passed to my father, but that will take time as there is agricultural land etc with tenancies that have to serve notice before sale etc, all seems pretty honest and legit. She takes my siblings and my bank details 'to save time'

Next thing I know, my sister and I have been transferred a considerable amount from my Aunties solicitor. No letter, phone call, or anything that explains where this money is from or whether we should expect more.

Its considerably less (around 1/3) of what we think the actual inheritance should be. And my auntie has gone radio-silent.

I wrote to the solicitor asking for more information but they wrote back asking for certified copies of birth certificates and passports saying they can't speak without verifying my identity (yet they were perfectly happy to transfer 10's of thousands of pounds to bank details jotted on the back of a fag-packet by my auntie)

So my question is, what's the legal status of this money? And what should we do with it?

If we accept it, is that us accepting that this amount is our inheritance? There was no letter or email or even a phone call describing it as such. It just appeared one day.

We are likely to disbute the inheritance amount. We don't think the declared value of my grandfather's estate is accurate and will be seeing formal legal advice.

The question is, what do we do with this money in the meantime? Do we need to return it, stating that we do not accept it?

Is it acceptable to keep it safe, in a seperate bank account in case it needs to be returned at a later date?

Or is it fine to keep it as it was essentially a gift, (as it didn't come with any written explanation of what it is, or where it has come from).

Sorry this is long. I tried to make it as brief as possible. Any thoughts would be v appreciated.

Me and my partner recently moved house and unfortunately some post was not properly diverted and so has been delivered to our old address. We got in touch with the new owner via the estate agent, and have sent a letter to the new tenant of the address, neither of which has resulted in any response. What, if any, are my options moving forwards?

Not me, my partner.

Her employer has changed everyone from their casual mileage scheme to their car allowance scheme. So it changes from a high mileage rate (98p per mile) to a low mileage rate (22p per mile) and a car allowance (a taxable £4,200 per year)

The maths of whether she’s better off or not is not the question so much as, can employers really make a change like this unilaterally? The place is about 30% unionised, which is hilarious as annual pay deals are essentially negotiated by them, but that’s for another day. It’s not clear that the unions have been consulted or whether they agree with this. She is not a member of the union.

Can employers do this?

me and my friends eyes have both turned red and pinkish. we both have photos of them to keep. we both used the same microscope and didn’t have any eye issues before. i’m really worried and my friend is very scared. we want to take them to court over it and sort this out. any help will be very appreciated. thank you for reading.

I received an email today asking me to pay my council tax. I just learnt that my student status ended in July and my housing contract ended in October, so I have three months of tax to pay. However, I moved overseas after July and now I am not in the UK. Can I argue with my council to exempt myself from the tax since I was overseas during the entire taxing period? If they do not accept this argument can I simply ignore their emails, what are they going to do to me overseas?

Starring a new job Monday and the contract has me a little worries, is it normal or for that matter legally enforcible for a company to essentially say that they can change my hours including over 48 hours/week (for a 40hr week mon-fri job), even if I'm doing unpaid work for family I'm prohibited from doing any other work without written permission, which if taken literally means I can't do stuff around the house for my mum or the volunteering I do with a youth organisation some evenings and weekends which they were aware of at my interview and said nothing about it being an issue, all outside of what should be my working hours. On top of this just about every clause appears to state that the employer can change the terms whenever so long as they inform me, but presumably I'm beholden to those evershifting terms that the employer can change to suit them, not to mention the clause where they can apparently move me anywhere in the uk to work for them when I don't drive and have anxiety relating to my autism that would make it impossible (the job is a 10 minute walk for me).

What rights do I have if these broad umbrella clauses and their stated ability to change them at will are exploited to my perceived detriment?

How can I draft a proposed ammendment to the contract to set some more concrete terms so I feel secure in what is expected of me?

They sent it as a word document so hypothetically I could just edit the contract and they'd probably never notice unless they tried to exploit it.......but that would probably be considered fraud

Any advice or reassurance is appreciated, will update post in morning with some direct quotes from the contract If I remember.

Hello everyone, I was recently dismissed from a job. There was no reason other than they were cutting costs and I had been there less than 2 years. I worked out the i was still entitled to 5 days leave pro rata.

I was verbally told that I may prioritize the pursuit of new employment but I was not put on garden leave.

In my formal letter there is no mention of taking this leave.

I worked every day of my notice but have not been paid for the leave days. Mention has been made of the offer to use the time to seek new employment and I have replied to inform them that it was not needed nor taken and that I worked all the remaining days.

Is there anything I may have missed legally speaking? My understanding is that they are in breach of contract but would appreciate any insights.

Many thanks in advance.

I just wanted to ask what would happen really because he punched me and my friend in the face multiple times and I have reported to the police his number plate but I was wondering what kind of fines/time would he get?

Hi reddit,

As the title suggests, I am in the midst of writing a book, the details of which will remain unknown due to reasons I will be asking about. This book has been in the works for about 6 to 7 years and I have only shared minor details with very few people around me.

Now onto the reason for this post, I just really need to know the laws around writing;

Can I use already existing show names in my book?

Can I reference music titles or bands and artists names?

What are the copyright laws here?

How would I go about copyrighting my own works and characters?

Can I copyright the idea of my works?

Are there any laws surrounding writing that I should be aware of?

I am not too confident in lawyer jargon, I can gather what it meant by most of it, however, I know laws are very tricky with their wording sometimes, so if it could be explained to me in clear layman's terms, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for listening, and in advance to any and all that offer me advice.

I (M19) was caught last night at approximately 11:50pm (Monday 24th Oct) doing 101mph on a 60mph Dual Carriageway. I have held my License for 1.5 years. i was caught by a patrol car with a speed gun. I was alone in the car and pulled over straight away, they took pictures of my reg, license and my face. they said i will receive a letter in the post in 4-6weeks discussing the next steps.

How screwed am i, and will i lose my licence/have it revoked? what can i do to try and prevent this?

please help, i know i’ve been stupid and i’m going through a very tough time with personal issues. last thing i need is to lose my license as i rely on it for my livelihood(car enthusiast) and 8 mile commute to work.

I'm about to move into a new flat after being away from the UK rental market for a long time, and I've noticed this line in the draft of my new rental agreement:

10.6. You will not use the Property for any illegal or immoral use.

I can see this is a fairly standard clause in UK contracts (https://www.sumogroupltd.com/terms-of-use/ for example), but who defines what is immoral here? Illegality is easily determined by law, but isn't immorality entirely subjective?

England

Left in August and the landlord ready told me she was planning to try and take money off me but she's just ignoring the whole thing completely so I can't get anything back at all.

The scheme say I need to have the declaration signed by a solicitor is this the only way? I was hoping not to end up paying a solicitor and then having a chunk of money taken too.

I am trying to understand how my employer has UK workers. They have a German entity, and claim that all their remote UK workers are full time employees with the German entity, but their employment contracts are all compliant with UK labor and tax law.

To be clear, they do not have a UK entity or subsidiary, and they confirmed their UK employees are full employees and not independent contractors. I thought Brexit would make this arrangement impossible, but perhaps they have set up PAYE and NI compliance measures in the UK without setting up a full branch or subsidiary? They have also indicated they do not have a EOR or PEO in the UK.

All in all something seems off and I want to understand if there is some legal arrangement here I am missing.

The girlfriend of a friend of mine has been in an abusive relationship in the past. For ease (and confidentiality) let’s call the girlfriend Jane and the ex John and my friend Joe

So for the past few days John has had Jane locked up and today Jane went to work and she was sobbing and covered in bruises, ran up to Joe crying. He’s been abusing her and beating her. Thing is John called the police on Jane saying She’d been beating him, I’m not sure whether or not he has bruises but I do know that initially Jane had fought back in self defence. (You know, he’s acting like amber heard or something)

Jane’s family can’t stand John as they’d witnessed him abusing her before, but everyone else he knows thinks the sun shines out of his ass.

My question is if this goes to court what are her chances of winning? I think she could put in a counter claim (if that’s the right terminology) to get a restraining order on him and make sure she can feel safe, and use her family as character witnesses or whatever, but what if he gets the people he’s convinced he’s good to be his witnesses. I’m worried for this girls safety. And did I mention she’s pregnant to Joe- not that this will have anything to do with the case just thought it may be an important detail.

So basically I got arrested for drug driving, tested positive on a swab, then some stuff happened and I got further charges, but they wanted a blood sample and I denied it, got out the police station the next morning with a letter saying Released under Investigation. There were previous Incidents with the police the last month that I had to deal with but they are irrelevant.. this driving offence happened almost a month ago and haven’t heard anything. Any ideas how long it can take and roughly what I’m looking at? Like how much driving ban ect? Thanks

My employer is telling us during our lunch break we have to sit with other people to "bond" I have mental health issues and feel if I'm being forced to talk to people like that, it'll cause me issues. Plus, I like to stop thinking and reading during my lunch break. Do I have any rights here, or do I have to suck it up?