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Central Adjudication Services - An independent adjudicatory body with documents and reports giving legal guidance on the interpretation of social security and child support law.
Money Claim Online - Online small claims requesting facility from the Court Service. Provides a user guide with details and frequently asked questions, a registration form and links.
Legal Services Commission - The official website of the Legal Services Commission, with details of the Community Legal Service and the Criminal Defence Service.
Tribunals Review - The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg, has appointed Sir Andrew Leggatt to undertake a review of tribunals and to report by 31 March 2001. Site provides details of the review.
Council on Tribunals - Supervisory body for legal tribunals and inquiries in England, Scotland and Wales. Provides information about the Council's role, membership and work, and links to related sites.
Privy Council Office - Judicial Committee - Information about the court of final appeal for Commonwealth countries, which have retained the appeal to Her Majesty in Council or, in the case of Republics, to Judicial Committee. Also final appeal court for the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK overseas territories. Also determines "devolution issues" within the UK.
Treasury Solicitor's Department - The Treasury Solicitor's Department is probably the largest in house legal organisation in the country, advising Ministers and Administrators on the widest possible range of legal questions, including questions of domestic, public and private law, and of EU law, international law and human rights.
Civil Justice Council - Remit is to keep the civil justice system under review and consider how to make it more accessible, fair and efficient. The site explains the structure and function of the council and provides a link to the Criminal Procedure Act 1997.
Human Rights Unit - Responsibilities are the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates into UK law rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, and various other Human Rights Treaties. Includes law and judgments, policy statements, news, guidance and Human Rights Task Force details. From the Lord Chancellor's Department.
Coroners' Courts: Increases In Financial Loss Allowances - Home office circular 56/99: increases in financial loss allowances for jurors and ordinary witnesses, in fees for professional witnesses in coroners' courts, and in fees for coroners' post-mortems.
Advice Services Alliance: Advicenow - Brings together information on the law and personal rights. Includes learning materials, case studies, quizzes and topical items.
Commission for Judicial Appointments - The Commission for Judicial Appointments is responsible for reviewing the judicial and Queen's Counsel appointment procedures. Site describes its role, responsibilities, procedures and activities.
Social Security & Child Support Commissioners - Official site offers news, decisions, practice and procedure, cases handled and information on how to appeal. [English, Welsh]
Social Security and Child Support Commissioners - Unofficial site presents a description of the work of the Commission, a list of the present Commissioners and recent decisions. [English, Welsh]
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi Legal System "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Legal System "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Legal System Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Legal System When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Legal System "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Legal System Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Legal System No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln Legal System The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Legal System "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Legal System This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Legal System He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Legal System Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning Legal System The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Legal System "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Legal System A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Legal System A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Legal System We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Legal System Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Legal System "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Legal System "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Legal System A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Legal System
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