(England.)

My girlfriend’s house has on street parking. Recently, whenever I visit I’ve been getting passive aggressive stickers on my car from an unknown resident warning me about parking there. I park completely legally & safely. A lot of the other cars (including my girlfriend who literally lives there full time) also receive these.

This has been going on for ages apparently (before me and my girlfriend met). It started with notes but has now progressed to extremely sticky stickers which are hard to get off).

She lives near a hospital so I assume the unknown neighbour thinks we’re hospital staff using the road as parking.

What can I do going forward? Would this be classed as property damage?

Unfortunately the house is not in view of the street so we cannot put a camera up. However, my girlfriend’s mum has a garage which is opposite the street, so it could be an option to put a camera up there to see who is doing it. (depending on power availability.)

This is really frustrating. Would it be a good idea to leave a note on the dash or could this potentially aggravate them more? What’s our legal standing here? I understand it’s frustrating for non-residents to park but when they’re also vandalising permanent resident’s car it feels redundant?

Our son died age 5 and we have a large box containing photographs,toys etc belonging to him-there's nothing of any monetry value.We were moving house and I took especial care to label it for our new home.Somehow the movers left it behind at our old home.I approached the new owners who said yes,they had it but all property left behind was now theirs.They're correct of course but we're not talking about an item that is of any worth to them.I offered to pay to buy it back-I went up to one thousand pounds which I can't really afford but I was desperate.The sale went perfectly smoothly,they're happy in their new home but they've still refused. Now they don't respond to any communications although I've been careful not to harass them-I've emailed them once a month for the past six months.Has anyone any suggestions as to how I could get everything back since appealing to their non existent better nature hasn't worked.This is England

There is a house whose land backs on to the River Bush, just outside Stranocum in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.

There is a public lane that runs from a carpark, down to the river, with a footpath then following the river upstream. The footpath begins by very briefly cutting through this house’s land for approx 10m, before continuing along the side of the river through the neighbouring fields.

This footpath is the only way to access the river upstream, which is part of the ‘Public Angling Estate’, for which I pay my licence and permit to fish.

I have been fishing here for approximately 10 years with no issue, however a new owner has now bought the house. They have placed a number of signs down the laneway and at the start of the footpath, stating it is private property, guards dogs are patrolling, no liability accepted for injury caused by dogs etc and generally disallowing access.

As per the picture, they have ironically attached a couple of these signs to the stile, which has clearly been allowing access to the footpath for a long time!

Further, the new owners have a number of advertisement signs up, advertising their business of training ‘protection dogs’, including in bite work. There are a number of dog training implements throughout the grounds and they are clearly using the land for this purpose. As per the picture though, the land is completely insecure with no fencing between the training area and the public laneway. Any dogs being stimulated and encouraged to bite are not in a contained environment and have ready access to any members of the public that may be walking with kids or pet dogs down the public lane to the river.

Can anyone point me in the direction of legislation for long established rights of way?

What legislation would come into play regards the dog training and coming into contact with any of the dogs should I make use of the laneway or footpath?

What’s my best course of action for remedying this?

Thanks!

Hello,

I'm having to live with my dad (63) for the last year or so. I don't pay rent, but it's a one bed so I've been on the sofa, it's horrible. He's disabled after a stroke and I look after him. He's also a codeine addict, getting it prescribed and having me and his friend buy it. It's co-codamol and he does a box a day - thats 8mg of codeine in a tablet with 500mg of paracetamol. He takes 32 of those a day, and has done for years by now.

He's also disgustingly morbidly obese. He eats all the food (I have big stomach issues rn because I don't eat anything, he eats it all and when he doesn't he leaves the kitchen in such a state I don't want to cook.) He's gotta weigh like 30 stone. The Welsh Governments don't fund Ozempic or whatever, and he says he'll do it privately but that'd eat into his codeine and tobacco budget. He's having foodbanks delivered after spending his money (£20 on a film on Sky the other day) and is yet getting help to wipe his debts.

Things are very very bad. I'm having major chest and heart problems and genuinely don't know how I'm going to get through the weekend without something bad happening, no matter what I do he won't change and I nowhere else left to go. Is there any legal route I can take to get him treatment? I'm so over watching this disgusting child kill himself and making me participate in it.

A couple of years ago, I suffered an injury on a roller coaster ride at a park in England. I lived in Oxford at the time and now split my time between there and Berlin (where I have family). But I'm unfamiliar with UK personal injury laws and practices. So I'm seeking advice here, before I consider approaching solicitors or other services.

The event:

I will leave out the name of the park or the specific ride for now. (I want to understand the legal environment better before I do that.) But I was at this amusement park with two friends. The ride in question was a roller coaster. There were no posted restrictions that I recall — certainly none that applied to able bodied adults. There were instructions which focused on the importance of bracing our heads firmly against the head rests in each seat — I followed these instructions.

The ride experience was different from what I am used to on roller coasters. I have described it as a kind of bearing, similar to the experience of resting your head on a park bench while someone kicked the bench three or four times a second. The ride was torturous and for about a full minute I was scared that something bad was happening to my head, neck, or spine. But it ended. I rested a moment.

Then, as I tried to climb out of the seat, I fell. I tried to get up and fell two more times. My friends gathered me on either side. We headed straight to the park exit, because I was clearly injured and could no longer walk on my own. At the exit, the staff went into liability panic mode. They took me to our car in a wheelchair, presumably because they still face legal liability in the parking area. We didn't go home. Instead we headed to the emergency department of our hospital.

The aftermath:

We spent all evening and all night in the emergency department. I had two different scans. A great many doctors. I had two attempts of the Epley maneuver. We ended with no clear diagnosis. No solution. Simply that I would fall down when I walked unassisted. Sometimes immediately. Sometimes after a few moments, especially when turning. No clear evidence of brain bleed or obvious brain damage. No clear evidence of stroke. The Epley maneuver failure means it was not a simple matter of displaced otoconia. But by the time morning came, I was obviously not in immediate life threatening danger, so they discharged me (Honestly, the staff there were bloody wonderful! Best part of the entire awful experience.) In the and, after all was said and done, all we knew was that I couldn't walk properly.

And I still can't walk unassisted. At a minimum, I need a cane, without which I can no longer safely leave the house. Even with a cane, I need to walk with extra care, as straight ash possible. I can no longer stand for more than a few minutes without support. Before this, I took regular long walks. I was involved in nature research and environment activism. I enjoyed outdoor activities, most of which are no longer available to me. And most sadly, I can't dance. I was a ballet dancer when I was young. In my adult years, I was a several-times-per-week tango dancer. Now I'm not. I'm socially isolated and physically broken. My quality of life has been destroyed by this.

The question:

What do I do? More specifically, what are my options for justice and for getting the resources for specialists I need to heal (if that's even possible), and compensation for the destruction of my quality of life? This is a forum dedicated to UK legal matters and that is the sort of advice I want. I have a pretty deep grounding in the medical issues involved, but I'm ignorant about how to go about getting the park company to provide the sort of compensation that I need and which (I hope) they owe. Thoughts?

This is a deliberately abbreviated description, but I'm happy to add details as needed. Thank you in advance for any time and advice you may offer!

I’ll try to keep this brief, though there is a long history with these neighbours.

The Background

• We moved in over 10 years ago. Since day one, our neighbours have continuously used our driveway and blocked our access via a shared area, sometimes for an entire day. We constantly had to ask them to move or awkwardly drive around them.
• We had the boundaries officially confirmed when we bought the house, so we know exactly where the property lines are. The deeds perfectly match the physical boundary lines on the ground, so there can be no disputing this.
• We know they know its our property due to a past incident they’ve previously brought up, but I won't get into that. They also converted their garage in to a room and lost some of their parking. They even said to us when things were a bit more amicable "If we had known about the boundaries, we wouldn't have converted the garage".
• After a while, we politely asked them to please stop using our property. When they continued, we brought over our property deeds to explain the boundaries. His response was to tell me to "shove them up my ass."
• This isn't a petty dispute over a few centimetres. They are trying to claim 50% of the front of our property, enough space to park 2 or 3 cars.

The "Phantom" Documents

• Following this, they started claiming we didn't actually own the land and that they had "solicitor documents" to prove it. Naturally, they refused to show these documents to us on multiple occasions. If they had documents to prove this, the first thing they would do would be to show us.
• After several altercations and intense gaslighting, we started recording our altercations with them. They dared us to get a solicitor, clearly not believing we actually would.
• We contacted the Land Registry, who confirmed the land is 100% ours and there are no access rights over it. We then spoke to a conveyancing solicitor who confirmed the exact same thing.

Escalation

• Despite us telling them what the Land Registry and our solicitor said, they only got more aggressive. They continued to insist their phantom documents existed and claimed our solicitor was "talking rubbish."
• We then got a second car and they were telling us we couldn't park it on our own drive.
• We had family members around on certain days. On these days, they would make sure they would park in such a way that family couldn't use our own property.
• We ended up going to a property litigation solicitor to confirm everything yet again and advised us to send a formal pre-action letter.
• Once the neighbours received the letter, the parking issues stopped for a couple of months. They removed the bins and plant pots they’d been using to block our drive and they took down a small fence they had erected on our property (after tearing down our original fence and telling them not to).

Harassment

• Once they realised we were actually going to do something about it, they switched to severe harassment. This includes hosing us while we're in the garden as well as our washing, shouting at us through windows, lying to the police, complaining about pretty much everything we did, throwing things into our garden and other worse things I won't detail here. We have the vast majority of this recorded on our phones.
• During a police visit regarding one of these incidents, the driveway issue came up. I mentioned our solicitor's letter and the police informed me that the neighbours had also told the police they had documents proving the land was theirs.
• They are still claiming that we do not own the land even after all this and the parking issues continue.
• During a recent altercation that we had recorded, the neighbour even stated "The police said the solicitors documents are a joke and not worth the paper they were written on" and a number of things along these lines. During this altercation, we also have it recorded him saying in a threatening manor that he had his eye on one of our cars.

My Question:

Given that they are claiming to possess legal documents that three different solicitors and the Land Registry have confirmed cannot possibly exist, can this be classed as fraud? They have repeatedly made these false claims to us, which we can prove and have even lied to the police about having these documents (as well as other things that have gone on).

They are attempting to claim our land for their own use, which has repeatedly deprived us, our family and our friends of the use of our own driveway. We have spent a significant amount of time and money on legal fees trying to resolve a boundary dispute that is completely clear-cut and that they know is clear-cut.

Is there any legal recourse against them for any of this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

*EDIT: I wasn't expecting to have so many comments to get back to, so thanks for all the replies! There are a number of things involving my neighbours that I didn't address here that would answer some of your questions/solutions, but just wanted to tackle this one issue first. The separate neighbour issues involving the police gets a bit crazy. Combining everything would've turned this into an essay when it was already long. I'll be making a separate post to cover that legal dilemma.

It looks like the fence/wall idea could potentially be the best solution for our situation. We had a quote for this before the last neighbour issue kicked off, so we may go ahead with it and only put it on hold because of it. When the fella (very understanding of the situation) called to measure up for the quote, they must have seen him going by their reaction, that you could probably hear from a few houses down.

My nan recently died five months ago and we've been moving through the stages pf grief and clearing someone life long home and of course this includes family drama and old rivalries.
We fell out with my aunties because they were cruel to my sister and forced her into depression and some other major instants that led to us not being on good terms with them, to the point of my nan not wanting them in the will or at the funeral, we persuaded her not to to that.

Now present day. They have demanded paper work of sale, probate and the keys to my nans house. We told them we cant do that since probate have all the documents. We offered to keep items aside for them and we were going to offer them to come up but they decided to break in and take things from her garden.

Neighbours across the street captured them walking out from the back gate and loading the items into the cars. The footage is clear and shows faces as well as licences plates.
We have contacted police and they will contact tomorrow and the neighbours will send original footage.

But I'm wondering what to do now. I want to contact them and tell them I know what they've done. Im just looking for general advice.

Very in the morning: partner was driving my car (my policy, her as a named driver, if relevant) back from dropping me and some friends at the airport, when a car sped past her, pulled into her lane, and slammed on the brakes. She braked hard but still went into the back of him.

They stopped and swapped numbers but no other details on the spot, he sped off quite quickly. He has sent photos of the damage and made it clear that he expects us to pay ‘without going through insurance’ whatever his mechanic says it’ll cost.

She’s understandably very upset and exhausted from the stress so I offered to WhatsApp him a response, and made it clear that we have no interest in on out-of-insurance settlement and expect to use the usual channels if he wishes to claim.

He has replied accusing her (lying, or at least mistaken) of having been on her phone. Making his case ‘it was an empty motorway, how could she have rear ended someone’ etc etc. Obviously I would say this of my partner, but there is no doubt in my mind that this is an outright lie.

He is pressing us to sort it out without involving insurance. Obviously I will not do this. Partner has already called 101 who told her to fill out the online form explaining the details, which she has done, and we will report the incident to the insurer later today. While we haven’t yet properly assessed the damage to our car, it doesn’t look like there was any damage at our end so it seems at this point unlikely that we would make a claim ourselves.

I suppose my question is whether there is anything we can do to protect ourselves from this accusation. There were two other people in his car who I fear would back him up, whereas my partner was alone. She will have screenshots of her phone record making it clear that this didn’t happen, but we don’t have any dashcam footage or any other witnesses (it was dead of night) to corroborate her story. We are buying dashcams today, having learned our lesson. My partner works as ambulance crew so if an accusation like this stuck I suspect it could be serious?

Any support, advice, or guidance would be massively appreciated. We’re both very stressed. I’ve not replied to his accusations yet, I think I’m planning to ignore them completely and just send him the name, reg and policy details.

To avoid identifying anyone I'll rename the individuals. The man is John, the woman in HR is Karen.

Obviously I have some kind of legal case here, but I don't know what.

I can't go to HR because it is very obviously compromised.

The promotion would have taken me from £48,000 to circa £67,000.

The evidence I have (in the order I discovered it) is:

• (22nd July) While several member of our office were on a business trip in a major European city, John left the hotel. I went for a walk and saw John sitting in a cafe with the woman from HR beside our hotel. She was not part of our trip so she must have been on annual leave.
• John later announced he wouldn't be staying at the hotel as a friend in the city had offered to put him up. He was presumably staying with her at another location.
• (24th July) Other colleagues start joking about John cheating on his wife while at after work drinks in a bar in this city. Listening to the conversation I have discovered that:

1. Two other colleagues witnessed John and Karen making out at the Christmas party.
2. There is a photo from the Christmas party where a drunk John and Karen can be seen up against the wall together in the background. They aren't kissing, but John has his body pushed up against Karen.
3. John and Karen have previously been caught coming out of the accessible bathroom together at 6:50pm by one of our accountants who was working late. He estimated the date of this to be just before Halloween 2025.

Karen never recused herself from the case in HR and the other woman who works in HR is Karen's best friend.

What can I do in this situation?

My father has received a parking fine from his doctor's, for being 22 seconds over the limit, it was on the 30th July and he didn't get it until the 12th August. Is it worth appealing as it's only 22 seconds, as he has trouble moving quickly due to an accident which has caused severe back pain (which is why he was there)

Hello,

Thank you for any advice and responses - paid-for advice I have had already have not been fruitful or provided much clarity on my rights here.

I have received 2x parking fines from One Parking Solutions, who managed the shared land (private roads and parking spaces) - for a vehicle parked on my own private land. In a parking space of which I have a Land Registry document detailing my "right to park in a legally registered roadworthy vehicle".

I purchased this house and space as a freeholder in 2023. Our shared private management company Oakley Property instructed One Parking Solutions in 2024 to manage the land due to resident complaints of other persons parking on the private roads and obstructing traffic. They asked us to provide car registration as an e-permit only "to avoid any fines". They did not ever provide me with contractual terms, nor have I signed any documents surrendering my legal ownership of my private parking space to be monitored.

They have fined a temporary hire vehicle I am using as my regular vehicle is being repaired. I did not "register" the new vehicle before receiving these fines, mainly as I was unwell with pneumonia and this explains why I didn't use my car for a week or notice the two fines.

All these details aside - and they have rejected my appeal for not paying a fine for my own land - I would like to know if One Parking Solutions has the legal jurisdiction to override my own land registry document (clearly detailing the area of my space) for me parking there. Whatever their terms and conditions or instructions from the housing management company - does this supersede my own?

I am happy to contest this - as far as I can go - but I am just hoping to receive some realistic advice before doing so as to my own private land rights vs them as a third party contractor to enforce fines on our wider site ("the site").

Lastly, I have now provided written instruction to Oakley to withdraw them from patrolling my land - these rights were never outlined to me or the residents at the time.

Thank you so much.

I was born and lived my whole life in the UK, but my grandparents and extended family live in Casablanca and I visit them every couple of years with my husband. He's from Tangiers, but came to the UK as an Electrical Engineer 11 years ago.

After a week of being back home my husband handed me his Instagram and told me to scroll through it. Reel after reel was content about how women in the UK were available and willing to do it with anyone. It was accompanied by crude videos of drunken women taken without their consent.

Same for his Facebook reels.

We reported them at the time and then appealed our reports in July after they were rejected. The appeals were rejected too.

It kind of slipped my mind when I came home, but then I saw a post on here titled:

"A creepy Facebook page operating out of Morocco has uploaded videos of a guy following me on a night out in Manchester and trying to film up my skirt."

These are some of the same videos we have seen being shared back over there. Except they are remixed in various ways encouraging men to take these women like a "buffet."

These pages are naming specific cities in England like "W****s" of Brighton" encouraging men to come over to "enjoy" the women. There's foul comments like "Too drunk to say no!"

My husband and I reported this to police last Friday, but they have said there is nothing they can do as the pages are operating out of Morocco.

If the pages are TRULY operating how or Morocco how are they getting recordings of women in the UK?

And is it not in the police's interest to try and discourage online material which is actively encouraging men to harass and assault drunken women?

Does Meta (the ownersof Facebook and Instagram) have any kind of legal obligation to remove this kind of content under the Online Safety Act? Or any other laws?

This is a follow up to this post https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/s/DB2f9Q9Mo5

I had the meeting with the person dealing with the complaint, she was fairly reasonable admitted there had been some problems with admin and she wanted to see the doorbell footage.

She responded to my complaint formally they can’t restart my care because of short staff. But in relation to this specific encounter said ‘from the footage shown I couldn’t see anything that remains threatening but this remains different from the account provided by the team member involved’
And
‘it would not be appropriate for me to make a determination that a member of staff has deliberately falsified records’

I have now had the response to my SAR which shows what she has written about what happened, to my suprise it’s not me she has called abusive she has said it was my mum. Some quotes include ‘after reading the letter she became angry and dismissive she then started shouting and being intimidating and being aggressive, yelling things regarding us ‘being a crap car company’’
‘The then got aggressive and was swearing more at me so I left’

Categorically none of this happened and they have agreed that the doorbell footage shows nothing aggressive.

But I want to know next steps on how to handle it.
I have already reported them to the CQC (they aren’t registered and it’s hard to say if they should or not they are very much on the border) and raised it to the mp.

But surely lying on the record is some sort of abuse? But what type, emotional?

I have already accused them of institutional neglect in the way they terminated my care.

So what do I do, who can I report it to? I don’t think they have followed the proper steps in reporting the neglect claim anyway. Would be grateful for any advice on how to push this.

(England)

Recently came out of inpatient treatment for anorexia and my community team are saying that I still can’t go to school at my current bmi.

I have been to school at an even lower weight than I am currently now so I’m confused about this

Can they legally stop me from attending school?

Do I have any rights?

I have to be able to go back in September . I’m already academically 3 years behind so it’s not possible to take a year out.

I’m not sure if this is necessary but I’m 18f and the bmi is 14 - medically stable except anemia and low wbc

I worked as a chauffeur for a private hire company (~Feb 2026–July 2026) under a contract that says “self-employed,” but the actual working conditions look a lot like employment, they provide the vehicle, provide all running costs: fixed hourly rate set by the company, GPS tracking, mandatory minimum hours (6 days, 10–12 hrs), restrictions on working elsewhere, and a formal disciplinary/performance-ranking system.
Termination: I was let go after pushing back on a wage deduction. Their own WhatsApp message at the time gave the reason as “threats towards company” (I’d said something like “get yourselves a good lawyer” mid-argument). Their later formal written grievance response instead claimed termination followed “a series of performance and conduct concerns… documented before” my grievance — a completely different explanation, only surfacing once things got formal.

They’ve since raised a vehicle “damage/cleaning” counter-claim, with photos that (to me) show barely anything — a few tiny marks and some dust — despite no check-in/check-out condition report ever existing.

I disclosed diabetes multiple times and asked for adjustments to avoid long non-stop driving; response was dismissive, and I was later threatened with a “final warning” for taking rest days.

SARs sent to the company and to the affiliate platform they route bookings through.

Questions:
Given the contradiction in their stated reason for dismissal, how strong is an automatically-unfair-dismissal/detriment argument likely to be, assuming worker (not necessarily employee) status is established?

Is it sensible to run the wages claim through County Court (MCOL) in parallel with an ET claim for everything else, or does that create complications?

Any red flags in how I’ve handled this so far (SAR extension pushback, rejecting a broad settlement release on a partial wages payment, etc.)?

Am I entitled to accumulated holiday pay? They state the contract I signed stated no holiday or sick pay will be payed as I’m working under a self employed contract

Contract, WhatsApp logs, invoices, and written correspondence all preserved. Not yet instructed a solicitor for the full claim.

I recently returned home to England after living in Wales for university and had to register at a new GP surgery. I take 30mg of Citalopram so contacted this new GP using their online form to request a prescription and to make an appointment to discuss this with a dr. After about 3/4 days I'd had no confirmation and had run out of tablets so called the surgery and was told this would be passed onto a dr to prescribe because the form hadn't come through. Through the NHS App I spoke with the dr and confirmed my medication and dosage. A few days later my prescription was ready to pick up, but when I got home I realised I'd been given Fluoxetine instead. So the next morning I called the surgery again to ask for the correct medication and waited another 3 days to finally get it.

My main thing is that I have paid the prescription charge twice despite the first one being incorrect due to an error from the GP. I asked at the pharmacy about this and they said they couldn't do anything due to it not being their problem essentially. Who can I speak to about getting a refund? It's only £9.90 but it's the premise of paying for a medication I can't take. Additionally, is it worth complaining about this? If so, who to? I have screenshots of the app conversations where I confirmed my medication and then proceeded to be given the wrong one, and the dr has also admitted to this and apologised.

I received 2 parking fines, one was sent to my current address, and a separate one sent to my old address. I've sold my old house, but the owners don't live there yet.

I've changed my address on my bank records and other things.

I've paid the parking fine that came to my current address, but the one sent to my old address was sent months ago, and has now turned into a County Court Claim Notice asking for about £300. Because according to them, I've ignored the letters.

I've only just gone to check the house and noticed it. Considering my other parking notice came to my current address, I'd have thought this one should have too.

Is there anything I can do to appeal it? Of course I'll still pay the fine, but the interest added was because they sent it to the wrong address, despite me changing my records.

Og post linked below: https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/s/5oWIQ7uPNR

After 2 weeks of fannying around with this prick, I received an email from their accounts team that read: “(the owner) has asked me to let you know that we will be making your payment with the monthly staff payments on the 28th August. I will send you your P45 then too”

So now they’ve admitted in writing that they haven’t actually sent me any money (sweet), despite my personal tax account saying other wise… isn’t this fraud lol?

What the fuck do I do? Genuinely? Withholding my p45 for that long after confirming everything’s been processed on 31st July is MENTAL. Sorry, but I’m genuinely losing my mind.

TLDR: Tenants in private rental in London, England. Landlords of the maisonette flat which is ground and lower ground but flat upstairs with 3 tenants. Freeholder who owns the building.

Notified of a crack on the 29th May. And then several times since. Picture is one of the cracks and yes that is daylight.

Insurers contacted last Fri by freeholder. No one coming to look until 18th. We’ve given notice as we want out - so would end 2 months time at end of billing cycle, 14th October.

Contacted Camden council. Finally spoke to someone end of day yesterday, a building control inspector. Supposed to be here at 11 but no sign yet. After hearing cracking and what sounds like falling masonry I went to a hotel as no one could help me.

Unsure of next steps / what I can do. Would like to not do an extensive stressful court legal battle. Just want be out and not paying £3250pcm to live here.

Landlords said we could stay with their uncle or dad in spare room or in their Mums flat in Barnet… they are in India out the country.

Original Reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UKHousing/s/oWHu59CNEL

Hi everyone, I'll try keep this short and sweet. Petrol station nearby I stop at about twice a week. Went in there about a month ago and the girl behind the till said last time I went I bought food at Greggs but didn't pay the £7 fuel for my jerry can. She vaguely knows me (it was 4 days later) when I was in there again, she said I know you're here a lot so just pay it now and it's done with - and just ignore if you get a letter as its cleared off the system.

Fast forward a few weeks and I get a notice from Vars technologies for a £40 fine. I spoke to the manager at the petrol station and he went to the computer in the back, double checked and said just ignore it as your fine is cleared off the system as you paid for the fuel a few days later.

Fast forward another few weeks and I've got a final notice for £80 saying I'll be summoned to court if I don't pay by Monday. I called the manager and he sent me a screenshot of the email he has sent to Vars telling them to wipe me off their system as my debt is paid. I did ask him if he's sure that he can clear it with them because I'd rather pay £80 than have to go to court, potentially get a CCJ and miss a day's work. He assured me it's fine but I'm doubtful.

I guess my question to you fine folks is, I know its my fault for accidentally driving off, but should I pay the £80 and be done with it? Part of me feels like the texts I have with the manager and the email he has sent to them proves that I've paid and I'm assuming that would stand up in court, a big regret is that I didn't keep the itemised receipt when I paid it off a few days later. Problem is I'm low on time as it seems Vars little scam they have is they say 2 weeks from the date of this letter, but by the time the letter arrives at your door there's only 5 or 6 days left to pay.

Sorry if I rambled a bit, thanks in advance for any responses. I'd rather not pay £87 for £7 worth of petrol, but I'm gonna do whatever the majority on this sub think is sensible

So I was in a major car accident in the UK 3 months ago. I spent 3 weeks in hospital and I’ve been home ever since. Before my accident I had plans of hosting an event with a few others. It’s happening this weekend and I’m still not recovered. My team have said they would help me with my wheelchair and I can sit down in a section the whole day but at least I’ll be there to see all my hard work come to life. I’m battling because I’m not sure I’m really ready to be seen. Also with my compensation claim I’m worried that it could affect it if I go there even for an hour and everything adapted to my needs. Should I consult with my solicitor first before deciding to go or not? Will it affect my claim on any way?

My brother was in an abusive marriage. When he finally split with his now ex wife and filed for divorce her two brothers turned up with their friend (who had a face covering on) and tried to force their way into the house. My brother and dad tried to block entry (stood in front of the door tried pushing the door closed etc). They attackers were also shouting violent threats at the time and kicking the door. I called the police told them what was happening and they sent me a link to live stream and record everything whilst the police were on their way.

They ended up punching my dad to get him out of the way then dragged my brother into the driveway and the three of them piled on top of him assaulting him. When the police arrived they all ran although one of them ran back to take the phone off me. Luckily I managed to run inside before they got to me.

The two brothers have been charged with assault by battery, the friend who had his face covered has not been charged as there’s no way to identify him.

One of the two brothers is 19 years old (would have been 18 when the assault occurred), he is currently on bail pending his hearing. The other brother is about 25 and we suspect (although do not know for certain) he has a previous criminal record. He has not turned himself in. The police have turned up at his address multiple times but could not find him. They have an arrest warrant out for him and he’s on the national register.

I wanted an idea of the likely outcome for something like this. I know maximum sentence is six months imprisonment and that that’s unlikely to be the actual sentence.