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    • Hello,

      On 15/1/24 booked appointment with Big Motoring World (BMW) to view a mini on 17/1/24 at 8pm at their Enfield dealership.  

      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

      The next day, 18/1/24 noticed amber engine warning light on dashboard , immediately phoned BMW aftercare team to ask for it to be investigated asap at nearest garage to me. After 15 mins on hold was told only their 5 service centres across the UK can deal with car issues with earliest date for inspection in March ! Said I’m not happy with that given what sales team advised or driving car. Told an amber warning light only advisory so to drive with caution and call back when light goes red.

      I’m not happy to do this, drive the car or with the after care experience (a sign of further stresses to come) so want a refund and to return the car asap.

      Please can you advise what I need to do today to get this done. 
       

      Many thanks 
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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
      Also, we will be to demonstrate to the judge that we are fair-minded and that we don't mind bringing everything to the attention of the judge even if it is against our own interests.
      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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The House select committee investigating events on 6th January has subpoena'd Steve Bannon, Dan Scavino, Kash Patel and Mark Meadows.

 

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Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon and Dan Scavino among advisers called to testify over president’s connection to 6 January events

 

And in an interview, Bannon has said he spoke to Trump before the rally about ways to 'kill' the Biden presidency.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/steve-bannon-capitol-riot-biden-b1925068.html

 

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Not content with losing 61 out of 62 cases alleging fraud in the 2020 election, Trump is suing Hillary Clinton, James Comey and others over rigging the 2016 election.

 

It could be interesting if the truth comes out about exactly who had links with Russia.

 

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Clinton, James Comey and others accused of orchestrating Russia conspiracy that makes Watergate ‘pale in comparison’

 

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After the Washington Post published articles about missing calls from Trump's phone records - 7.5 hours' worth - on January 6th, Trump claimed he'd never heard of burner phones to avoid actions being scrutinised.

 

John Bolton has helpfully leapt forward and said that he and the former president discussed them several times. :D

 

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Revelation from former national security adviser raises pressure on Trump as lawmakers investigate gaps in January 6 call logs

 

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I've never seen a court video like this. Alex Jones, who claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was staged, in the defamation case brought by bereaved parents. The Oops moment.

 

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Revelation contradicts claims Jones had nothing on his phone pertaining to 2012 shooting he long called a hoax

 

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After the FBI raid on Mar a Lago, the Guardian has analysed the current legal challenges for Trump. I think the newest one could be a particular problem for him.

 

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As FBI agents search Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort, here’s a recap of legal turmoil facing him on several fronts

 

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Here's David Allen Green on using a private email address vs retaining classified papers in one's home.

 

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  You will remember the issue of Hillary Clinton’s emails. She used a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. You may also be one of...

 

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That's a shame about Wyoming.

 

If I were a lawyer, as you say I'd be worried about not being paid. I think Trump has form for this, especially if the result goes against him. Did he have a run in with Giuliani? I can't remember exactly.

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It's hard to know the motivation when it's Trump. But it's possible that lawyers don't want to put their names to something that isn't, err, entirely truthful.

 

There's also the concern that the orange one has a history of not paying bills, including lawyers.

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I think he has a few problems. 92 documents labelled Secret and 25 Top Secret held not all that securely at Mar a Lago.

 

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According to the affidavit, the government previously found in Trump’s possession 184 documents marked ‘classified’, 67 marked ‘confidential’, 92...

 

 

 

 

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That sums up why documents at Mar a Lago was a bad idea.

 

I've never thought he could just declassify a document on a whim and I'm sure I read earlier on that there was a process within the White House to do this. He didn't follow it.

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This is a good summary article of the trouble Trump has over the documents. Here's one quote:

 

'In sum, Trump is in heap of trouble. “The chilling reality is setting in,” constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe tells me. "In seeking this search warrant, the government had obviously exhausted every less intrusive way of protecting national defense information and other extremely sensitive top-secret material from those who illegally removed it to Mar-a-Lago, lied to government agencies about its being there, and kept it there for reasons that cannot have been entirely innocent and might have been unimaginably dangerous to our nation.” '

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/26/fbi-affidavit-trump-search-takeaways/

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I don't know about the death penalty bit but I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

 

I think the orange one has a heap of problems because as I understand it, removing any document after you leave presidential office is outside the rules. Mike Pence has made a point of saying that he gave back every single document under the rules.

 

I forget about the legality of it but I don't think a document even has be classified to get you into trouble if you removed it from the White House and kept it.

 

And it seems that Trump and his team may not have told everything to the Justice department about what documents they had where at Mar a Lago. They even found very sensitive documents in Trump's office there, in desk drawers.

 

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This could be a huge problem for Trump. A document about a foreign power's nuclear capability was at Mar a Lago.

 

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Recovered records include material even senior Biden officials were not authorized to view, Washington Post reports

 

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There's been a lot on this in the Washington Post and also the New York Times.

 

There are questions over whether executive privilege exists once you're no longer president - many people think it doesn't. My understanding is that no documents can be removed. There are laws that cover this I believe they apply to any document, not just classified or secret ones.

 

Mike Pence made a point of saying that he had returned every document to the appropriate people and had left with nothing that belonged to the people and therefore the Archives.

 

Trump may have declassified some documents but there's a procedure for doing this before papers leave the White House and Trump didn't follow it. What he did seems to count as scribbles.

 

It sounds like chaos at the end of his tenure because maybe he didn't believe he was leaving the WH and it was all done in a rush. But I don't understand why he would want to have papers at Mar a Lago and why he'd want to keep them in the first place. He doesn't seem to have bothered at all about their security.

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This is a good analysis of Trump's latest court case.

 

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Why is a young, ideologically-driven judge with a lifetime appointment to the bench allowed to ignore legal precedents?

 

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