Questions tagged [local-authorities]
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In crimes prosecuted by local authorities, do they take the place off the police or the CPS?
For example, illegal eviction may be prosecuted by local authorities. In this case, does that mean that they refer the cases after charging to the CPS rather than the relevant police forces? Or that ...
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A state line passing through an incorporated municipality?
I recently learned that a boundary between two Canadian provinces, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, passes through the town of Flin Flon.
At first I thought that could not happen in the U.S.A. because there ...
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Is there such a thing as specific agents/officers legally pursuing international criminals across borders?
This is a continuance of this question regarding Interpol.
The answer to that question left a hole; who's going to be the international pursuer in the classic, world-wide cat-and-mouse game? It is a ...
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To what degree can Interpol agents take part in an international pursuit?
I wonder to what degree Interpol agents can take part in the pursuit of an international fugitive. The whole reason Interpol exists is precisely because one country's authorities cannot simply pursue ...
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Is there any statutory timeframe for how long one may be forced to wait for a Care Act 2014 need assessment?
If one is left in housing limbo having applied to a local authority as homeless for an unreasonable amount of time (I've heard it may be six months), one may be entitled to thousands in compensation ...
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NSW, AU Living in a Class-1A approved shed, that's not a "dewlling"
We've been living in a shed as a house for the last ~12 years. Now it has come to the attention of the local council, and they're sending out inspectors, etc.
The shed was approved (to 1A standards) ...
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Boundary Fences UK: What Comes Under Class A, Part 2 Schedule 2 of the General Permitted Development Order 2015 (Amended)?
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What residences/businesses come under Class A, Part 2 Schedule 2 of the General Permitted Development Order 2015 (Amended)?
I am looking into the defintion of Free ...
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Bellowing helicopters in the sky: insight and recourse
Exceedingly loud helicopters seem to regularly fly in the sky where I live in the London Borough of Islington, both in the day and night, and often on Sundays, when noise is supposed to even be ...
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Are community college instructors and students liable to the same anti-discrimination, Title IX laws as universities in the United States of America?
Are community college instructors and students in America subject to the same anti-discrimination, Title IX,non-sexual abuse, anti-hate-crime, identity, LGBTQ rights gender-abuse laws as universities ...
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What is a landlords obligation and method of informing local authorities of a new tenant's occupancy?
What is the channel or method by which landlords communicate of a new tenants residence in a property to a council? And are they required to do this?
Bonus points for the same thing but about ...
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What happens if one neglects, or declines, to pay one's council tax?
This link suggests that there are possibly no criminal implications, either summary or indictable, which is a little counter intuitive and somewhat hard to believe. As a form of tax, one would expect ...
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Do donations to only some primary candidates express favoritism?
A county-level political party committee donated to a few, but not all, upcoming primary candidate campaigns, despite the committee's bylaw that states "It shall be the policy of the committee to ...
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How to compel small town government to take action when critical infrastructure (sewers) fail?
Upstate NY (USA) here. I live in a very small, rural village (only a few hundred people). The street we live on has a sewer line that all the houses connect to. Last week our neighbors noticed a very ...
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Do city regulations stating that food waste should be in "plastic bags" require bags specifically for food waste?
When regulations say that food waste should be in plastic bags, are these bags separate from the plastic bags everyone already uses for general trash anyway? For example, this source says that food ...
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Are there de minimis exceptions to "food waste" for trash collection?
I'm interested in how de minimis principles can apply in law and especially started thinking about it after reading that certain cities require food waste to be put in a plastic bag. For example, this ...
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