So if no valid ticket can be obtained, then you can park for 8 hours (the maximum period of parking in that parking place) ? How so ? Section 40 covers faulty tickets, section 47 covers faulty machines. Either section could apply in this case. It is fortunate the OP has retained the original tickets, they are indisputable evidence of a fault with the machine. The machine could have printed 2 tickets the first time (which is still a fault), hence the identical time stamp and consecutive serial numbers. I am not confusing the PPC/LA ticket issue, but it is still evidence that the OP didn't try to avoid the charge and park for free. This needs appealing to the traffic penalty tribunal or higher.

Not so, from the PDF link in the first post: It clearly states (emphasis mine) that if there is no working ticket machine you don't need a ticket. You may argue that the machine was working, but the 2 tickets clearly show that it wasn't working correctly. The two tickets show that a total of £1 was paid, and if the OP didn't overstay £1's worth of parking, the car park operator has suffered no loss.

If the OP was arrested for a driving offence whilst in the vicinity of his vehicle, the police should have secured the vehicle before leaving the scene, to prevent it from being taken and subsequently used in a further crime. If not secured, any subsequent losses are down to them. Don't forget that it is usually a condition of your insurance that the vehicle is not left unsecured, if you are in handcuffs you can't secure the vehicle yourself. If the police don't secure the vehicle, the insurance could be voided with all the implications that my bring. If the police or forecourt owner didn't authorise the towing, and he didn't authorise the towing himself, then the vehicle was TWOC'd. Can you not report it as stolen ?

Back to the OP's problem, I thought that if the terms and conditions of an insurance policy are breached, the cover falls back to RTA only cover, which is sufficient to comply with the Road Traffic Act. However, if you are involved in an accident or need to make a claim, or have a claim made against yourself, then you may not be covered financially for the claim and could be on the hook for any costs.

I'd give the car keys to the true friend, and let him take the old lady to hospital. I would stay behind with my true love and wait for the bus with them. It's a very old moral dilemma job interview question to test lateral thinking.

In motion ?

Does your phone show the date/time the message was sent. You need evidence of the TIME that the SMS was sent. Can you take a photo of both the sent and received SMS, that may show the time delay.

If you paid by phone, an itemised phone bill will show the exact time the call was started and its duration. Simples!

I always thought that wills made before a marriage were invalidated by the act of marriage. Look here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/53/section/18 Info from HMRC: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/ihtmanual/ihtm12074.htm As your friend's widow has already been told to leave the home, and the brother-in-law is aware of the will, I would suggest your friend's widow seek professional legal advice urgently.

He doesn't say if the garage tried resetting the fault, just that they did the test, i.e: read the error code from the ECU which said ABS sensors faulty. If they did reset the error code, it would have come straight back on, as the sensors were still faulty. Now that he has fixed the sensors, he wants to clear the error code, which means a trip to the dealers for an appointment with the diagnostic machine.

The ABS light will stay on until it is reset using the diagnostic equipment, but will come back on if it senses a fault. It is quite rightly showing that an error has occurred sometime in the past. It needs resetting AFTER the sensor is fixed/replaced.

I'd tell him to get lost. You weren't hosting the image, you were hotlinking to another source. This means that you have no control over the content of the image, the source you were hotlinking to could have changed the image from a public domain image to 'his' image, and could change the image content at any time without your knowledge.

I would argue that you haven't been overpaid. A scenario for you: If the employer had made a one digit mistake with the account number and paid the salary into a random suspended account, which also happened to be overdrawn, and the recipient bank had refused to refund the money, would the employer hold YOU liable for the money ? This is what has happened to you, the only difference is the random account is in your name. The employer can't state that you have had the benefit of the money by repaying a debt of yours, they don't know what your intentions are towards that debt and it's none of their business. The employer made a mistake. They have already paid into the new account so the old account details should not have been retained. Threaten them with the DPA and ICO. They will have to ask the bank to refund the money. If the bank think it was your salary they won't refund it. The employer should have said it was a different employees salary paid into the wrong account.

I think you mean 'p.p.', which is allowed on business letters, but I doubt it is allowed on a witness statement.

You might want to read this: http://sentencingcouncil.judiciary.gov.uk/docs/Reduction_in_Sentence_for_a_Guilty_Plea_-Revised_2007.pdf Read Annex 1 for an explanation of the 'first reasonable opportunity' for pleading guilty. Also from the link: I may be wrong, but I read the 'double counting' bit as saying that if you plead guilty at first court appearance and are remorseful and can show mitigation, you will get the maximum reduction (1/3), but you can't get any further reduction by providing 'assistance' during interview, as you would already be getting the maximum reduction. If you plead not guilty in court, but provide assistance to the police during interview and are eventually found guilty, you may get some reduction in sentence for providing assistance to the police. You cant 'plead guilty' during police interview, but you can provide 'assistance'. I don't think admitting the offence during interview would count as assistance, but if you can provide documents or evidence it may go in your favour.

If you were overpaid 2 weeks rent and now have a deduction equivalent to 2 weeks rent, 2-2=0 The overpayment has been paid back so you cant be in arrears.

I have had the same 3.7% increase on my t-mobile contract. I think you have got mixed up with the VAT. The £17.02 figure will be NET (before VAT). The £21.17 figure will be after VAT has been added. Look at what you are actually paying now, it should be £20.42. The new amount of £21.17 is 3.7% larger.

If you have the account information, you can write from your new address. If they insist on a signature, sign a letter with a slightly different signature, and draw one diagonal line through it. Then send them a photocopy of the signed letter. You keep the original letter with the original signature in ink. If the signature you supplied is used surreptitiously to reconstruct an agreement, you have the original ink signature and can challenge it.

One other aspect to think about: Is the clocking in machine used for any form of health and safety records, e.g: fire drill role call. If you are physically in the building but not 'registered', what happens if there is a fire drill or emergency evacuation. Where I work, the first thing I have to do when I enter the building is 'tick in'. It may not be the same as a time clock, but if i'm late it's noticed.

As advised, wait until the points have actually been added to your licence. Depending on the speed you may be offered a speed awareness course instead of the points, in which case you don't need to tell your insurance company anything.

Errr....YES! From their own website:

When digital switchover is completed, old style tv's without built-in freeview wont be able to receive any live broadcasts. Will the TV Licence rules be updated to take this into account ?

I don't think anyone has raised the point that this could be maliciously used by someone to run up a bill or drain prepaid credit of someone else's phone. If I visited the website and entered YOUR phone number, you would be the one who has to pay any associated bill. If the number had to be entered using the phone, there would be no argument, as vodafone would have a record of you sending the information to the company, but by using a third party website, vodafone had no proof that YOU entered the information.

Agreed. As digital switchover happens in your area, when the analog signal is turned off, the digital signal will be boosted in power, and you should be able to pick it up on most aerials. I live in Yorkshire, we switched over in Sept 2011. Before switchover I had trouble picking up freeview signals on 'set-top' aerials, now I can pick them up using just the aerial lead with no actual aerial attached. From the OP's switchover date of April 2012, i'm assuming he is served by the Crystal Palace trasmitter, and switchover will happen on 4th & 18th April. On 4th April BBC2 analogue will be switched off permanently and BBC digital channels will be boosted. On 18th April the remaining analogue channels will be switched off permanently and all other digital channels will be boosted. For Crystal Palace, a horizontal polarization group A (red) or wideband (black) aerial is required. Most aerials don't need to be changed, but some do. Ignorance of this is what drives the so called 'experts' to recommend an expensive aerial installation when something more modest would do the job perfectly well.

According to the RTA1988, Schedule 2A, Section 3:6 you are liable for seizure costs. If stopped by police and you produce a policy certificate, they WILL check with the company that the policy is valid (i've had this happen to me a few times) We aren't required to travel with insurance documents, we rely on the insurance company to update their own and the MIB databases. As a driver, we don't memorize our policy number, but 99.9% of us remember the company we are insured with, the police then check with the actual company for the existence of a valid policy. If the insurance company incorrectly told the police that he wasn't insured when he was, and he now has proof that he was insured at the time, he may have a valid claim against them for his seizure/storage costs. They will in all likelyhood deny any liability but i'm sure a court would disagree. We are told by courts that it is our responsibility to make sure we are insured before we commence any journey, which the OP has done, but has been let down by his insurance company and has incurred costs through their failure to tell the truth.