Questions tagged [united-kingdom]
For questions specific to the United Kingdom. Note that the UK does not have a common legal system across its jurisdictions - consider using [scotland] or [england-and-wales] or [northern-ireland].
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Is the principle of making extra allowances for amateur litigants stronger in the UK?
Amateur litigants, also called pro se litigants or litigants in person perhaps among other terms, are decidedly supposed to be actively accommodated and assisted by the courts in the UK so as to “...
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What provisions existed in UK law for handling a tied Brexit vote?
The UK left the European Union because of a public referendum where 51.8% of the votes were in favour in leaving the EU.
Suppose it had resulted in an tie, i.e. 50% in favour of leaving the EU, 50% ...
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How to accomplish a court hearing after arrest without being stuck in prison cell for more than 4 years like Assange? [closed]
TLDR / UPDATE / SUMMARY:
Police: I'm arresting you.
Me: You are breaking the law, what I do is minor.
Police: No, I'm arresting you, what you do is more than minor.
Arrested.
Now the question is: ...
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Is the use of a former hotel site as asylum seekers’ accommodation exempt from public disclosure under FOIA or EIR?
Invariably when hotels are taken over by the authorities for asylum seekers' accommodation, they are staffed by zealously secretive security guards who refuse to answer basic questions about why, ...
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Is not disclosing your address a reason alone to be remanded into prison? [closed]
What do you do if your duty solicitor recommended you to self represent but the judge / court basically ignores the testimony and continue to abuse, exploit and invert language and its meaning/origin ...
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Can I Sue the Police?
Long story short:
My son was backed into by a truck earlier this month.
They left the scene.
I called the police, they showed, up I wrote a statement and everything.
My son later was in the hospital ...
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Why do Acts of the UK Parliament still start with a lengthy bombastic sentence?
Source: Rebecca Gowers. Plain Words (2014 ed). p. 76 Top.
Can't the hackneyed sentence (in bold, below) be shortened? Why not something less pompous?
The first affects only the official. It is ...
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What legislation governs the use of the word “flavouring(s)” on ingredient lists?
It’sa fairly vague word. In the U.S. I understand that there is a distinction made between artificial flavour(ing)s and natural flavour(ing)s.
In the U.K. there seems to be something that is just ...
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Uncle Roger Brings Joy to the World or a Type Harrassment?
Title refers, Uncle Roger is getting more famous recently by doing YouTube shows reviewing other chefs' cooking especially on Chinese Fried Rice.
In July 2020, he went viral globally from his ...
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Is it possible to get a divorce on documents completed online?
For a long time I avoided meeting my husband because I didn't want to divorce him. I think that without my consent, he cannot start a divorce proceedings. However, yesterday he brought me ready-made ...
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Is it a breach of the PSED for the Secretary of State to declare Hamas but not the IDF or Likud a proscribed terrorist organisation? [closed]
The equality act places an equality duty on the public sector. The Secretary of State is charged with the task of designating certain organisations as proscribed under the terrorism act.
Does taking ...