England & Wales

I know of a friend who is at his wits end with a barking dog in a surrounding garden. When visiting him I have heard this dog and it barks constantly. Other neighbours have complained to the owner who is apparently very hostile and will take no action. 1. Is this an offence to let your dog bark constantly. 2. What is the best course of action to resolve an issue like this?

A friend and her husband both hole full UK driving licences, BUT the husband has been told by the hospital NOT to drive until they get the results of some tests/checks they have made. regardless of and moral or reasonable opinions can he still drive legally. At present he just insists she sits in passenger seat. does this make any difference. and will she be help as the responsible drive should any problems occur.

Hmm well this is an interesting site - amazing what you come across whenyournot looking - I have a question or 3 which perhaps should have been put in the 'scenarios' forum - but I didnt so here go - try and follow closely :-) A woman reports man for alleged breach of NM order as a result of a female friend of hers calling and during the conversation the subject of the NM order comes up - this takes place over 2 calls in a 3 week period lasting abt 2 hours in total - inc a call FROM the woman TO the friend - therefore in esessence there is no breach - thats NOT the problem. The report made is taken seriously by the relative force who contact the force where the friend l…

I'm just hoping to continue something which Mark Davies briefly mentioned in another thread. Mark mentioned that he has had to cancel his holiday three times. I understand that working rest days is to be expected, but how often have you had to work on rest days and why do they need you to? Is it every couple of weeks? Are you given the opportunity to say no? Do you get the days owed back? Thanks.

Can anyone tell me how leaving a restaurant without paying is obtaining services dishonestly? To me it's making off without payment as 'on the stop' payment is required...?

I've just been issued with a new contract of employment for signing by my employer, seeing as I've not had one before, and was wondering if someone could give me some advice. There's a few areas in it which concern me, such as a section on 'duration of contract for this pay review period', which is worded as 'Your employment under this contract commences on 7th January 2008 until 5th January 2009, subject to terms and condition and annual review' This appears to me to indicate I'm not a permanent employee, but on a rolling annual contract. Not something the bank would like I'm sure. Alteration of job description appears to be at the discrection of the employer, witho…

A hires a prostitute, B, to have sexual intercourse with him; they agree on a price of £100. They have sexual intercourse at which point A makes off without paying. He never intended to pay all along. B complains to the police that she has been raped, saying that she would not have consented if she knew she wasn't being paid, her consent was conditional on the payment. Has she been raped? (there is a textbook answer for this....no looking at NPLD now!)

So, you pull over a car, inside you see fake police warrant cards, some fake uniforms, but nothing to identify to others outside the car you may be a police officer, and also all stuff covered so cant be mistaken for police by others, and obviously no offensive weapons or otherwise. I would assume that these items are not illegal to own and trasnport or store in your own car (one jacket has police markings that can be removed by velcro), they cannot be seen from outside the car. These are used for an can be proved to be used for filming purposes on private property. I would assume none of these items are illegal to own and store in a car should no one else see them? T…

If i was filming/observing/capturing images of someone for the sake of proving to their spouse that they were being unfaithful would i fall foul of any privacy laws?

As I understand, it's an offence for anyone but the driver to remove a parking ticket on a vehicle issued by a 'civil enforcement officer'. However, I'm sure it does happen when some miscreant thinks it will be funny to take it, which inevitably in turn means that some poor guy who has had a ticket issued against his car registration doesn't know and gets a nice little surprise a few months later when a letter lands on his doorstep saying it's now a fine, +50% extra or whatever. I imagine most instances end there, but what about someone bloody minded enough to challenge it in court? I can't see how any court could reasonably disbelieve someone that his happened to. Ha…

Everyone knows that it is illegal to carry in the street any offensive weapon e.g. knife, gun, no matter the intention. I remember a few years back, the public were allowed to carry telescopic batons in the interest of self-defense. And then that failed as well. Too many crooks were using these clubs for crimes. I'm not a police officer, but I greatly admire the work that they do, and would voluntarily become a special constable if I was eligible. Sadly, I am not, so I can't experience what you chaps are facing in the streets today. When I work security, it has been an unspoken rule that in order to defend yourself against any unruly customers, you own a large flashlig…

In what areas of policing can reasonable force be used? (these are with the obvious assumption that best attempts at persuasion have failed) For example reasonable force can be used in things like arrest,search,detain under section 136 and prevent B.O.P etc... But for example can reasonable force be used on someone say obstructing the police,i.e can you choose to push someone away obstructing you or your colleagues or do you have to arrest to get the job done?

I had a query from a member of the public recently. He asked if he had his car parked on the side of the road, advertised for sale - Not causing an obstruction, legally parked ie. not on double yellow lines etc... taxed, insured and registered to him. Is it a problem? My reply was 'no, can't see a problem with that' However, he stated he was approached by the council who warned him to move it otherwise they would take further action as it was an abandoned vehicle - It clearly wasn't though. Thoughts?