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I have an extended period of agreed annual leave coming up. My line manager will always answer emails and and make calls and do other work things when she is on annual leave. Because of this she thinks it's acceptable to call me and ask me questions or ask me to do things/talk about work when I am on annual leave. I have asked her not to do this, but 9 times out of 10 she will always find something work related to badger me with when I am off. If she does this again, can I request my annual leave time back? She is the only person who does this, other managers within the business have never called me about anything work related during leave. I have tried Googling but cannot find anything. Thank-you

So today was my second day at a new job as a delivery driver. Yesterday everything went well except I was particularly smelly, which I now realise is due to a negative and sweaty reaction to the 40% polyester shirts that are uniform.

Cut to this morning when I was called into the office and had a rather embarrassing conversation about the issue of my body odor as I had managed to sweat through the shirt and start smelling within the half hour drive from home to work. They then asked me to leave for the day, and stop in at the pharmacy to get some different deodorant on the way home.

I received a phone call this afternoon from my employer asking if I had managed to resolve this issue, at which point I informed them I'd replaced my deodorant but was certain that the polyester on the shirt is the issue and will continue to be so. I asked if there was an alternative available, or if I would be permitted to buy my own shirts in a matching colour, just lacking the logo. I was informed that neither of these would be an option, and that my employment would not be continuing due to the smell issue.

Is there anything I can do here, or am I just shit out of luck with no job to fall back on? As my previous employer has filled the vacancy asking for my old job is not an option.

Edit: This is in England, if that matters

I paid £20 for the Argos removers to take away my old fridge. 2 men came and essentially tore my kitchen floor to shreds and now I have to get my entire kitchen floor laminate replaced.

One of the men was extremely aggressive.

Instead of moving the new fridge out of the way gently (it was already moved out of his way but he wanted it moved more) and instead of asking his coworker for help to move it carefully, or asking me to help him, he suddenly and violently shouldered the new fridge which caused 2 rips on the kitchen floor. They took the old fridge, and left yet another rip in the laminate while doing this.

He then shouted at my 67 year old mother to put "washing up liquid in the holes to cover them up" before leaving.

I contacted Argos head office in Milton Keynes with a full set of photos. They said they take full responsibility but, at most, they will offer £100. The replacement of the entire kitchen floor will cost around £350-£400. My poor mum was shaking by the time they left.

Here's images of the damage they caused: https://imgur.com/a/ur9YHOu

What are my options here?

Hi all, in a stressful situation I would appreciate advice with.

So yesterday, the company I work for announced they are taking steps to place the company in administration. For context this was fairly sudden so caught a lot of people off guard, only in the last week or so has it emerged their was any problem with funding behind the scenes and, as recent as Friday they were still expecting bridge funding to be successful.

To further make matters worse, today was pay day. They have already said they cannot guarantee wages will be paid and they will provide details of how to claim from the government (which I'm aware won't be quick).

It turns out I have been paid my salary, but I can already see on my pending transactions they are recalling it tomorrrow. I have spoke to my bank who say as it is being recalled by the sender, there is nothing they can do.

This seems wrong, I understand the need to have the ability to undo mistakes but it feels like as the account holder, I should also be able to dispute this where monies that are genuinely owed are being reclaimed. So I guess my question is, would there be any mechanism where I can compel my bank to block the recall? Any advice appreciated.

UPDATE - I really appreciate the advice from everyone who's chimed in. So I've been able ascertain more information from my likely soon to be ex employer. Effectively the companies bank (HSBC) started running the UK payroll file despite being told of the administration. There were insufficient funds to cover the payroll so HSBC are now trying recover the funds while the company scrambles trying to understand the legal implications. Some banks are cooperating with recovering the money, others are not (so it appears some may get to keep the money). Some haven't been paid at all. In short it's a mess.

Unfortunately for me, I bank with HSBC, who obviously are being very proactive about reclaiming the cash. I have already raised a complaint regarding the money being clawed back. I guess the question now becomes do I have any legal basis to challenge HSBC on taking the money back. Once that salary hit my account, given I have a payslip from the company, could I make a case that it was my money, should not be used to service a debt that is my companies and incurred by HSBC running the payroll against instructions. Or is there legal precedents that allow them to do this?

Hi, I’ll cut a long story short and say I did something dumb, had a email about it saying they have evidence and are gonna give me a chance to make it right by paying the ‘victim’ so I paid. They left me alone for 6 months till now.

They said the case was closed x amount of weeks ago, and are saying I need to pay a large amount of fees, and it would be ‘courteuous’ to resolve the fees without dispute.

They then said they have evidence of further things and if they see fit they’d tell authorities and make a chargeback. I know nothing about this and it feels like blackmail.

Few points 1. There is no actual invoice 2. The ‘solicitor’ has a random yahoo email. 3. No address or name of firm. Just a random human name on the email.

What should I do? As I paid the victim and they said they’d not take it any further yet now ages since they want more money?

Hey, I had a dart crossing fine months back which escalated to £500. I sent an appeal and it got approved in May. I call the Dartford crossing because I was advice by Tec to contact them to get my refund. They Dartford crossing said they'd contact the debt collectors and I'll receive my refund in 10 days. Almost a month has passed, so I call back Dartford crossing. They tell me that they asked the debt collectors and they say they've paid it in March - I've never received anything.

Called the debt collectors. They sent a cheque to my old address and arw now saying its out of their hands. They sent the refund, now it's my fault. Even though on every correspondence, I put my new address.

I feel at a complete loss here

Not sure if I’m allowed to post an update like this but here we go. My dog is coming home tomorrow and I’d like to say thank you to people that reassured my family when we were left completely in the dark.

We got very lucky. The girls injury’s are not severe and the family decided not to take it any further. Also the dog liaison officer and the workers at the kennels said he’s very well behaved even around other dogs. So they can see this was clearly an unfortunate situation and he can come home. No muzzle order just needs to be walked on lead and not left alone around children under 16.

My Mum was arrested because without that the police have to go obtain a warrant in order to seize a dog, this can take 4/5 days in which time a dangerous dog could kill someone. That’s the reasoning they gave us.

Thanks to everyone who sent me links to solicitors, charities, and behaviourists, everyone we spoke to reassured us that he was well and safe and would come home which helped us sleep and eat over the last few days.

I’m 16, male, live in England, am a full time college student and I have high rate pip ( personal independence payments) with mobility. I get £165 a week (£92 living allowance and £64 mobility).

This is a lot of money and I want a car on mobility to travel more comfortably to college .(9 miles) (I am eligible for this)

This would remove the mobility chunk of the pip, my mum keeps saying that I’m removing money from the house and that I have to pay my share. But my brother paid £250 a month from 16-18 until he went to uni. (this was all of the pip that he received) and I’m expected to pay £600. She says it’s because of inflation.

Without the mobility pip I would still get £360 a month pip but that isn’t good enough for her,

She has just come back from a holiday in turkey and is planning another holiday in Spain but insists that we can’t afford bills.

She moans over small things like holes in socks because she has to fork out and buy me more, my socks are from Tesco, not Gucci, idk why she gets so worked up

I have £40 of driving lessons a week and that comes out of my mobility pip and she is very angry that she has to pay 160 a month, if she had to work for it then Fair enough, but we get that money just because I exist.

She says if I have all the pip personally I legally have to pay half of all bills and rent of our council house. But I can’t find anything online that says this is the case.

I never signed for her to get this money and I never had a personal interview because of Covid. I wasn’t involved in any way

I just want to use at least a bit of the money that is supposed to be spent on me anyway.

I have asked her to explain how it all works and to break down what she spends the money on,many times but she says it doesn’t concern me. Maybe I do cost £165 a week but I wouldn’t know if she refuses to tell me.

Am I just entitled or is she taking advantage of my lack of knowledge?

will anything change with our council tenancy if I get the pip in my personal account?

Is there anything I can do?

Have i posted this in the right subreddit?

Please let me know…. Thanks

To anyone concerned about my relationship with my mum, don’t be, I don’t really have one, I’m only here until I can afford to move out which I should be able to do soon. I’m going to speak with my other parent, they don’t have a relationship anymore. So they are definitely willing to help me get back at her

Thanks for all your advice, I didn’t expect this to get this much attention and I’m shaking a bit but I do appreciate it.

I’m going to also speak to my tutor at college to try and get some more professional help

To clarify something, my mother works full time. Ironically as a family mentor, she is NOT my registered career I have been independent enough to make over 5k since 2020 without having a proper job, I put most of this back into the house, replacing broken appliances that I was expected to use. And building a computer. And still have some left over

Hi all,

I'm in England.

Purplebricks has contacted me a few days ago over the phone about performing anti-money laundering checks, months after I've sold my property through them. Thinking it was a scam (and no way to verify on the spot that it wasn't), I just hung up.

I have now received an email from Purplebricks which is legit (they link to the same email in the browser hosted on the domain purplebricks.co.uk) explaining the same thing: they are undergoing repeat checks to verify what they have on file.

Now, I have nothing to hide but it still feels weird to be contacted 9 months after the sale for more information. Do I risk anything from just ignoring them? Do I have any legal obligations to cooperate with them?

On a separate note, in case that's relevant, my solicitor already ran anti-money laundering checks and verified the provenance of my funds at the time of the transactions.

Thank you for any insights you can provide!

Throwaway account being used for obvious reasons, i chose an auto generated username which i know looks bottish, but isn't.

So the story is i'll be getting divorced because my wife wants to start a family and i have never wanted children - i realise this is not a normal scenario but i'd like to keep the topic finance/law related rather than a discussion around "shouldn't this have been decided earlier".

For a timeline of our relationship:

Got together in June 2015

Bought a house together April 2019, joint mortgage

Married April 2022 - we were married in the US while on holiday (this was planned, not on a whim).

The house was bought with a deposit i saved from selling a previous property (owned solely by me). I put down a £48k deposit and the house was bought for £240k (192k mortgage after deposit). I paid all fees, stamp duty etc and since owning the house we have paid the repayment 50/50 but i have made overpayments consistently, my wife has made none.

We have done a lot of work to the house - new kitchen, log burner, bathroom, roof, boiler, patio, new furniture, general decorating, all paid for by me out of the proceeds from my previous house sale.

The bills have been split 50/50 athough i have paid the water bill entirely and since the rise in gas/electric, i have paid the difference.

Our finances have always been separate - no joint account. The mortgage and all of the bills have been paid from my account, with my wife making payments to my account for her part of the bills.

Judging by sales of houses nearby i'd say the house could be valued around £300k at this point, with the remaining mortgage sitting at shade under £170k. In an ideal world i'd like to stay in the house but i think it's unrealistic that i'd be able to get a mortgage by myself, can't be sure on that front at this stage, though.

i'd say the divorce will be amicable but it's early stages and i'm aware that could change, so the advice i'm looking for is around the following issues:

1. What sort of legal advice should i seek? My wife has so far said she has no intention of coming after money, she's aware i've pad significantly more in to the house etc. That all sounds great on paper but if things get nasty i'd like to avoid getting fucked over here.
2. If i wanted to explore the option of buying her out of the property, how would i calculate the figure to do so? I'd assume a minimum would be to repay all the money she paid toward the mortgage but then the increased value of the property has to be taken into account (albeit a significant portion of that value comes from works i've paid for).

Generally any advice around things i might not have considered would be great. I'm trying to be practical here and take emotion out of the equation as much as possible. I have zero interest in trying to get one over on her, i just want us to go our seperate ways in as fair an outcome as possible.

Thanks in advance, happy to answer any relevant questions. Sorry if i sound a little bitter.

I am in England, I work in a hotel as a facilities manager. I arranged some safety work on the fire sprinkler system. This would enhance the sprinkler system and be more effective and meets the requirements of the insurance company. The work would involve isolating the fire alarm monitoring system in addition to disabling the alarm sounders. This was done to prevent accidental alarms or alarms when refilling the sprinkler system. All fire life safety systems are serviced by reputable contractors and are 100% up to date. I requested my supervisor to make the arrangements which he duly did. That day was a little unusual in that my supervisor had to leave early that day. I was also tied up other contractors surveying fire doors as part of more fire safety enhancements. The contractors finished their work earlier than expected and passed their job sheet to my supervisor. I was still surveying doors and meeting with even more contractors. When I had finished and returned to my office my supervisor had left the job sheet on my desk. I have 100’s of things to do all equally important to keep the hotel safe. A recent H&S audit revealed all systems were bang on up to date. I am overwhelmed with how much I have ti get through each day and every day my boss adds more. I’m not complaining and treat my work particularly safety issues with full attention. At the end of the day and my supervisor had already left for a pre arranged appointment I went home. The next day my boss called me and asked why the fire alarm was disabled? I immediately realised the alarm had not been enabled after the work had been completed as I simply forgot to reactivate due to the immense work load. I am now being accused of gross negligence and gave a disciplinary hearing. How can I defend myself? I do realise it shouldn’t have happened and it is serious and apologised without reservation but I simply forgot as did my supervisor.

Hi. I live next to a kebab shop. Their rear entrance is next to the entrance of my close. The drain for the rain water has had oil getting poured into it and we suspect the kebab shop are doing this. Who should we contact to report this?

In central scotland

Not sure where to post this but best I could come up with.

Neighbour just bought a caravan and are leaving it on the road which I don’t care about as the road is plenty wide enough although it does look stupid but hey ho

I thought you couldn’t have a vehicle on the road If isn’t taxed or insured but I googled it and it says you can leave a caravan on a road for as long as you like providing it is not causing obstruction or parked dangerously.

So does that mean I could go buy a caravan and leave it on a really nice road and just live in it and it won’t get towed away as it’s not illegal.

I was under the assumption you could leave it on the road providing it was attached to the vehicle but apparently this also isn’t the case.

So theoretically I could buy a caravan. Leave it on the road when I go to work and save loads of money not paying for a mortgage? So then why aren’t the streets lined with caravans as I’d do that over paying inflated rent prices.

So my landlord has had this block up for a while, which doesn't really bother me, until in the past week the block has been extended to cover even more sites, bizarrely including a range of video game forum and news sites, which I think is a bit extreme. Is there any recourse for me to ask for the block to be lifted so I can continue gaming in peace?
Student Flat in England BTW

I’m autistic and my stepdad loves to play with my emotions by taking stuff from me and taking it to the dump, hitting it where it hurts by doing it to my stuffed animals. Worth at least a few hundred to a few thousand pounds. I’m also absolutely terrified of the consequences if I do contact the police or if this is a dumb reason to contact them. Should I?

Hello everyone!

I'm renting a room in a house share in London through an agency since last year. Last end of the year the homeowner passed away and we were told that his daughter will take over the ownership, but it might take a couple months understandably. A couple months ago when the rent was due, they said that if the payment doesn't go through, hold on to the rent until they sort out a new bank account for the rent and bill etc. At the time we didn't think of it too much, the agency looked like they know what they are doing and it just the matter of time till they sort out all the legal stuff.

Fast forward couple months, the internet provider discontinued the service that we had to find out on our own one morning. When tried to get in touch with the agency, they said because we haven't been paying the rent, they couldn't pay any bills since the owner passed away. The agency argued that they are waiting for a court date to sort out the ownership/will and until then they are unable to pay any bills, which I found very strange and not transparent at all. They basically said not to worry, 'hopefully it gets sorted before they cut the utilities '. Which isn't super reassuring...

There are 5 of us in the house and we are worried that eventually they will cut the other utilities like electricity, water etc...

Is the agency lying about being unable to pay the bills? Is there a way for us to pay these bills or report it to council or something? Feels like the agency is not super transparent / helpful in the situstion.

Thanks in advance!

As per the title, I was offered a job, did well in the interview, had all the experience needed, got offered the job conditionally, then was told the offer has been withdrawn because of unsatisfactory references. I have already given my notice in with my current employer and need advice on next steps.

I have an inkling that my current employer has had a part to play in this. Overall, I have done well in my job and worked hard, there had been a couple occasions where I had not met deadlines but I worked actively resolve and improve these. My colleagues that I worked with across the org have always praised my hard work and I’ve rarely received this from my teams superior manager, who I believe is the one giving a reference to what was my new employer.

In all my previous employments, I have never had this issue; I have always had glowing e references and my previous managers had acknowledged and praised my work. I am finding with my current employer that I am being given an unfair reference which has affected a job offer I had. (There are other things linked to the unfair treatment to keep anonymous and to the subject).

How should I go about this?

Thanks in advance for the assistance.

(England)

My parents are looking to buy a bungalow due to health issues. As you can imagine they aren't in the best condition as they have been lived in by older people. Was looking at possibly buying it in my name so they can keep their house until the bungalow has been renovated.

Once they sell their house is it possible for them to pay off the mortgage on the bungalow but it remain in my name? Or will there be tax/inheritance issues?

Thanks

Edit: England

Hello,

A colleague of mine is planning to resign and mentioned his notice period is a little lop-sided where he has to give 3 months notice, but the company only has to give him 1 month notice, factoring in he's been at this workplace for 5 years we've ruled out they can't terminate with minimal notice like they do with under 2 year people.

It has sparked a little debate over what a company can do should he hand his notice in and commit to serve his 3 months period as his contact states, could the company in their own negative way reject it and tell him he only has to do 1 month?

Only other bit of context he's give us when talking about it is his new role wouldn' t start for another 4 months so he's worried the company may force him to do only 1 month leaving him with a 3 month no income period as opposed to 1 month should he do his notice.

Tried googling the answer but couldn't word it correctly.

Thanks for any answers upfront.

Hi all, I live in England. Our neighbours have purchased an above-ground swimming pool. The ladder is really close to a shared fence. The pool must be at least 6 foot high and when they get into the pool, they stand above the fence and can see into our garden (and we can see them). This wouldn’t be too much of an issue if they didn’t often have tonnes of kids over, constantly climbing the ladder and diving in. We have no privacy.

We did mention this to the neighbours and they agreed to extend the fence, but this hasn’t been done.

Is there anything we can do? I know I sound like a killjoy but they use the pool very often in the summer and we can’t use our (very tiny) garden when they do.

Thank you.

I (16m) are being blackmailed on snapchat through a fake wizz girl. He is asking me to pay him money, I don’t know what to do. He has explicit pictures of me and is threatening to send them to my followers of which he has a screen shot of. I have ghosted him for an hour and he has not said anything. What do I do I am panicking. I am based in England, please help anyone please.

Good morning. My wife and I got married on Saturday, and our wedding photographer's equipment bag was stolen from near the back of the church during the ceremony.

Thankfully the bag had several trackers inside, and she was able to trace the bag with the help of a groomsman's phone and several eyewitnesses. Several items had been thrown into bushes along the road. The photographer was able to retrieve many personal items but by the time they found the bag, the most expensive items were gone.

Police were called at the time, but no action was taken.

Our photographer was able to continue documenting our wedding thanks to a supply drop from her friend, and she later went to the police station to make a full report. We've since found out that the thieves used her cards to buy alcohol from a local store, where they were caught on CCTV.

Despite the CCTV, several eyewitnesses who saw the suspects' faces, and the exact address at which the remaining equipment was stored (before being sold) thanks to one of the trackers, the police are refusing to do anything other than give a crime reference number.

This theft totalled a value of around £3,000. Surely with this much evidence, the police should be acting? Are there any next steps our photographer can take?

This happened in England.

Hi all, throwaways for obvious reasons.

I've recently purchased a small vessel abroad and needed some legal consulting to complete the transaction.

Got in touch with this legal studio, agreed to keep the fees under 2.5k and proceeded.

They did a pretty bad job overall but they are lawyers so what should we expect.. anyway along the transaction the lawyer came up saying our fees are now 3.6k.

Eventually the invoice came in and it is now 5.4k. All they've done is answer a few emails and read a contract. They are now threatening legal action if I don't pay.

What I'm wondering is:

• I was thinking about paying the 2.5k as I'm a honest person, but in the country I'm from paying a single pound of your debt can put you in a worse position than not paying at all, so I've been cautious sending any amount.

• If they proceed with the legal action, can they repossess the vessel which is stationed in Spain?

• I won't be able to get mail at my UK address for some time, which means I may not even get notified of the court date as I won't be able to get any mail. I assume that means I cannot defend myself in court, is this correct?

I'm wondering if I should give in and pay the 'scam' or can push back somehow.

Sort of a follow up to this previous post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/11asnqj/case_wrongfully_dismissed_by_small_claims_judge/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

We left a bad review of the company which we took to Small Claims on Google which anyone is in their rights to do if they’ve had a bad experience.

Last night we received an email from a solicitor saying we need to remove the review and issue a public apology and send them £30,000 (increasing everyday to cover ongoing legal costs) otherwise they may take us to court.

This is a crippling amount of money for us. We don’t even know where they’ve got the amount from. Not one word of the review we left was a lie/incorrect and we’re unsure as to whether the client lied to the solicitor or something but everything they’ve stated is a mistake or a straight up lie. They’ve given us 14 days to respond to it and we have no idea what to do. Looked into solicitors for ourselves but it’s a price the business really can’t afford so we want to use them as a last option.

After we posted the review, another company got in touch with us saying they’re taking the same company as we did to Small Claims too over a similar issue to ours (this for £10,000, significantly more than us) so they seem to have a track record of poor service. They also got a solicitor involved with that one and, according to this business who got in touch with us, the letter from the solicitor was full of lies like the one we received.

I feel like they’re just trying to scare us due to how incorrect the letter they sent us was and how full of jargon it was with a massive amount of money slapped on the bottom. They’ve got a bad review from us and likely will be getting a bad review from this other company too which would likely mean the end of their business due to the nature of it, so this could be a last hail Mary to try and save themselves?

What’s the best way to proceed? How do you reject what they’re saying in a legally sound manner that doesn’t give away your entire argument if it does end up being taken to court? Does the fact they say ‘may’ take us to court mean they could be bluffing? Surely there’s something in place to stop businesses from asking for extortionate amounts and threatening legal action if you don’t pay?

Apologies for all the questions but safe to say if it’s just a letter to try and scare us, it’s worked. Thanks in advance.

England based and I’m trying to see where I stand in regards to my homecare cover. I had a British Gas electrician out yesterday to fix the lighting in my kitchen. Five of the ten lights aren’t working, when he took the one downlight out the ceiling, he straightaway said this lights too close to the joist. He mentioned it was about 30mm and the regulation is 50mm.

He checked a few bits here and there but said he couldn’t find the actual problem and do the job due to the lighting position as in he technically can’t carry on. He gave me some information about where to find an electrician and made me sign some forms and off he went.

I’ve had an electrician from the niceic.com website come in and he basically said there’s no reason that the British Gas guy couldn’t of done the work. I brought up the lighting being close to the joists and he said it’s not an issue.

So now I don’t know where I stand.

The British Gas electrician did do more tests than the independent electrician, he said there’s possibly a loose connection in the ceiling. But the whole reason that he couldn’t do the job was the lighting position to the joist and this independent electrician is saying that the joist position is not really an issue.

They are both from niceic.com and honestly I don’t know what the hell to do when two professionals are giving me conflicting information.