Jump to content

comrade

Members
  • Posts

    167
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by comrade

  1. Any landowner is under a duty to take reasonable care to ensure that his visitors are reasonably safe under Occupiers Liability Act 1957. So, yes, you can sue whoever owns the carpark in question. You never go anywhere entirely at your own risk. There is always at least some duty of care, even to trespassers and burglars. Wheher it is a good thing or not is a different matter, but this is how English law is.
  2. The guy in that video is an idiot, as simple as that. He probably watched some of that 'freeman on the land' crap and believed it. In many situations not cooperating with the police is a good idea, especially if your are actually guitly, but you have to know the actual law to do it properly. Shouting some random pseudo-legal bullshit at police officers will definitely get you nowhere.
  3. Those fit perfectly for mirror lights http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/371043024683?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D371043024683%26_rdc%3D1
  4. Get a solicitor. Any transfers of interest in land must be made in writing and conform to certain formality requirements. You don't want your purchase to be made void a few years down the line when property prices are 50% higher, do you? About as complicated as it gets in legal matters. When dealing with real estate you can just get away with DIY in residential renting/letting, but anything involving buying/selling/gifting is STRICTLY NOT DIYable.
  5. Bollox, totally forgot about that. In that case, not much point in suing them
  6. There is no such thing as a EU 2 year warranty. Where the hell do people even got this from originally?? The relevant EU Directive provides that member states must allow at least 2 years for claims to be brought, it does not provide that the goods must last for 2 years. Under the UK law you have 6 years to bring the claim anyway, so this Directive adds nothing to your rights. And you cannot sue a company for breaching a EU Directive anyway, only EU Regulations have that effect. marzman As others have said, contact Samsung, they might fix it for you as a gesture of goodwill. Failing that, Section 14 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 provides that goods have to last for a "reasonable time". For a 55" TV, that was presumably more than £1k when you bought it, 2 years is not a reasonable time by any stretch of imagination. Contact Comet, but make sure to speak to a manager, or their head office, as the ordinary workers will not have a clue about customer laws. If you will get nowhere with them (most probably), sue them.
  7. Jack the car so that the wheel is off the ground, take push rivets out and 1 screw that holds liner to the wing, then the liner will peel out just enough to get access to the sidelight.
  8. Try to get the paperwork from him first, don't mention the damage yet. He might be more cooperative if he thinks that he can get away with it. Don't threaten to call the police/her majesty/your mates etc. Unpleasantries just make him more likely to ignore you. The guy clearly doesn't give a frak, so will take a while whatever you do, so be patient. If you have his address it might be worth it turning up to see him in person. He can't ignore you if you are standing right next to him. Just don't try to intimidate him etc.
  9. That's why I said 'sometimes'. How the car feels has nothing to do with technical knowledge. You knew how much more bhp/torque/magicpixiedust you are likely to get after a remap. Everything else is purely subjective and therefore should be considered with caution when making a decision.
  10. You didn't do yourself any favours by threatening to call the police. The guy probably thinks that you are a nutter now. How much are you looking to claim from this guy? So far it appears that you have lost the second plumber's fee and the carpet. Will it be worth the bother suing the guy over that?
  11. All those 'after a remap it feels faster than a GTR' comments are because of a purely psychological effect. There is no way anyone could actually feel +15bhp on a 276bhp engine. And throttle response means nothing if you are flooring the pedal in gear. Sometimes you just have to think for yourself rather that listen to what the people say.
  12. Exhaust is either the joint between the back box and the middle pipe, or a flexi on the Y-pipe. You can it welded for £20-£30.
  13. Quarantine it for 42 days, then you're good.
  14. When I had holes in the exhaust it was making a rasping noise when you step on it, not when letting it go. You can easily feel it by hand when revving it on ramps.
  15. Assuming the guy is aware of his legal position: the guy goes to police, the police arrests OP for harassment, the guy gets back to the property, OP gets charged and gets a criminal record. The guy here has a right to live in the property because he has a tenancy. This tenancy arises automatically by the virtue of the Housing Act 1988 if there is an exclusive possession of the property and payment of rent. In this case there is a joint tenancy between OP's mum as a landlord and OP & his 'friend' as tenants. Everyone Property law is a bloody minefield. Before you do anything more that letting someone sleep on your couch for a night you better learn your legal position. The issue in the present case could easily have been avoided if OP's mum gave OP a formal tenancy and OP sublet his friend one of the rooms on a licence. The factual situation would be the same, but legal position would be very different.
  16. Here I am Lines 1-6 are all incorrect 1. Legally there isn't such thing as 'squatters rights'. The only right that might possibly be described as such is an adverse possession claim that a squatter might have after squatting for 10 years, but even that is severely gimped now. Otherwise, a squatter is a mere trespasser that has no rights whatsoever in relation to the property and can be removed using a possession order. 2. A bailiff can only enforce a court order that has to be obtained first. 3. You can't just go in and throw out a trespasser. Even if he doesn't have a tenancy or a licence to be there you still have to obtain a possession order. The new criminal offence that prohibits squatting on private land only applies when someone enters a property as a trespasser, if he originally had a permission to enter there is no offence and the police will not be interested. 4. In this case the guy is most certainly a tenant. Once you give someone exclusive possession of a property or even a part of the property and charge rent for it there is an Assured Shorthold Tenancy. nowhereboy As I've already said, in your case there is most certainly a tenancy. If he is paying his rent then the only way you can legally get rid of him is by issuing Section 21 notice. This is a 2 month notice on expiry of which you can apply for a possession order, so if he refuses to leave you are looking at 4-5 months to get the property back. This notice has to meet strict requirements to be effective. If it is not effective the court will not give you a possession order. I have not studied this matter in enough detail to give a sufficiently accurate advice on how to issue the notice, so you might either take a look on this forum: http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?3-Residential-Letting-Questions or seek legal advice. It is probably better for you to try to get him out informally, but you have to be careful in doing so. Making him feel alarmed or distressed is a criminal offence of harassment, making him appreciate immediate violence is a criminal offence of common assault.
  17. Looks like this is exactly what you need. You can build a small PC for around £250, that will meet your needs. You can get a mini-itx case that will accommodate a dedicated sound card and HDD's. Something like this http://www.ebuyer.com/392377-coolermaster-elite-120-advanced-mini-itx-case-rc-120a-kkn1 with this motherboard http://www.ebuyer.com/630832-gigabyte-ga-j1800n-d2h-intel-celeron-j1800-2-41ghz-vga-hdmi-hd-audio-mini-itx-motherboard-ga-j1800n-d2h +PSU, RAM, HDD's and sound card.
  18. I you want a charge on the property you definitely need to get a solicitor to do that. This is pretty much where DIY ends with those things. There is a whole lot of issues like formality requirements, registration of the charge, existing charges (if any), beneficial interests and probably few other things that I can't remember at the moment.
  19. You think that you are helping but in a fact you are not, because you obviously do not have a clue about law. You offered him to incur a further loss by issuing a claim that has no chance of succeeding. This is not a good advice. I don't know why do you mention that you got your money back, it was a different situation. You might have had a valid claim in your case, but nelson here unfortunately does not.
  20. Do you even understand what you are saying yourself? You can only get a court order for the money owed if the money is in a fact owed, which is, like, the whole point of this thread. No court will ever issue an order without considering the merits of the claim if the amount is in a dispute.
  21. Oh dear, here we go again. Did you actually read the thread? If the seller will turn up in court to defend the claim and won't do anything completely retarded there is exactly zero chance of nelson winning this.
  22. Your understanding is wrong. The term is simply that the outstanding balance of the loan becomes payable either on death by the estate of the borrower or on sale by the borrower himself. There is no need for a charge to do that. You need the charge if you want a security for the loan so that your loan gets a priority over all other debts, credit cards etc. It might be undesirable to lend without any security, but OP seems to understand that.
  23. Did he actually tell anyone what happened in the end? That topic is locked now. Unlikely to be misrep, more likely to be classed as puffery as in Carlill vs Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. There is a scope for an argument that it is a misrepresentation if the seller a) knew that it has major faults the buyer relied on that information and did not check it himself. But here the buyer will need to prove that the car had a major fault at the point of sale and the seller knew that, which is pretty much impossible in 99% of cases. The bottom line here is that if you are buying from a private seller you should only ever rely on yourself. If you want guarantees buy from a dealer.
  24. Looks good enough. There is no strict need for a solicitor, but if it is a large sum it might be worth getting an independent witness. This is to avoid possible forgery claims. Keep in mind that it will be an unsecured loan, so it will rank lower than any mortgages or other secured loans your borrower might have on the property. It will also rank the same as their other unsecured borrowing (credit cards, etc), so if after the death there is £10k assets and £100k loans you will only get a fraction of your loan back.
  25. Funny how people here avoid admitting speeding like a plaque, but will quite openly suggest properly criminal conduct
×
×
  • Create New...