On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:20:09 +0100, mert1639 wrote:

..It was a private hire car, hired directly from the owner who had
given me his card previously.
I phoned him directly because we needed a 7-seater, and I knew he had
one;
It normally costs in the region of £10 to taxi from my house to the
city centre. I didn't ask for a price up front because it is such a
routine journey; and we had to divert slightly to pick up one more
passenger on the way. Both those factors could put the price up a
little. Perhaps to £15.

At close of journey he asked for £25. I made some slight protest. He
said "Time and a half" which is nonsense, but under percieved pressure
to look after my six guests, I caved in and paid up.

I'm kicking myself for giving him so much money so easily.

I suppose since we didn't discuss it beforehand, and since he isn't
working under the rules of a managing company he can legally charge
me what he wants. (?)
How would you have handled it?

Tony

In message <1ikjlv9.1ddkwpn5zs534N%%%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk>, at 18:25:04 on
Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Firth <%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk> remarked:

How does that work if the computer has a RAID controller (which my
desktop PC does)? I suppose they either need a different technique, or a
jig that glues together all the images.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:55:14 +0100, Anthony R. Gold wrote:

I'll be round later...

Seriously, though, I can't see any problem with apprehending someone
found inside *your* home without *your* permission, and calling the
Police.

Not sure if this is the correct forum. Apologies if it isn't.

We own the lease of a ground floor apartment in a block. The block was
constructed about 4 years ago. Recently a severe water leak developed in the
apartment 3 floors above with the result that all the apartments between us
and the leak have been damaged to a greater or lesser degree.

The management company arranges the buildings insurance cover within the
maintenance cover and advises the charge in the maintenance schedule.

When we became aware of the damage being caused we advised the management
company who responded with a reference number and contact details of an
insurance broker. When contacted the broker recognised the reference number
but advised that as of July 1 2008 there was an excess of

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:45:07 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:

Undoubtedly. But he still has no right to enter any time just because he
feels like it. That's part of what your rent is paying for. A rental
agreement is a contract. If he didn't want to give up the right to enter
on a whim, he shouldn't have signed the agreement.

Mark gmspamx.net> wrote:

Remove the hard drive(s) from the computer. If they have their heads
screwed on they may lift any latent prints from the internal drive, but
often they don't bother. Connect the hard drive(s) to one of their
computers and create a forensic image of the drive(s). This will be done
without mounting the hard drive and usually this is done using a rig
that will prevent data from being written to the drive under any
circumstances. The disk image made from the drive will be used to
generate a cryptographic hask value. The same will be done for the disk
itself and these hash values will be used as evidence that the drive and
disk image are identical.

Then the examiner will search the drive for anything incriminating. The
forensic software used will permit the examiner to search for particular
types of file and will show previews of the file contents. This will
work even if the file has been deleted and/or partially over written. It
will also work if the drive has been formatted.

mrsukyankee;544686 Wrote:

A room can not be cosidered a room without planning permission. This is
more seen in terms of basement rooms perhaps search google on the
basement advice but my opinion is no these "rooms" if bedrooms can not
be cosiderd legal rooms.

Have a look here - http://www.pandmatticconversions.ie/faq.htm

We have had an offer accepted on a house. It is listed as 3 bedroom
with a rear extension. In doing the searchs, our solicitor has
discovered that the extension and loft conversion (the 3rd bedroom)
which were supposedly built in 1998 have not gotten either planning
permission or building regs (these were 'pending'). We are not
concerned with the planning permission.

My questions is (which our solicitor hems and haws about) - can the
building be legally for sale as a 3 bedroom house? Are the areas that
have been built w/o building regs be considered habitable rooms
(livable space)? Or would the loft conversion just be considered a
fancy loft?

Our local Post Office has a small 'Dogs Not Allowed' sign on it's
front door.

I can understand this where food & drink is for sale, or is being
consumed - Health & Safety rules, etc. But this is just a Post Office
with a tiled floor..

Is this just a jobsworth flaunting his power, or is there a valid law
in operation here?

David