How To Create A Monthly Budget

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Regardless of your income and financial situation, a budget is one of the most important tools at your disposal. You can be alerted to trends you might not have noticed when you track your money habits, like spending nearly £70 a month on lunch-break coffees. Noticing those trends is an essential step in identifying your behaviours, and accepting a change is needed.  ‪Read more by clicking here →

Budget

A budget is a financial plan for a defined period, often one year. It may also include planned sales volumes and revenues, resource quantities, costs and expenses, assets, liabilities and cash flows. Companies, governments, families, and other organizations use it to express strategic plans of activities or events in measurable terms (Wikipedia).

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Abuse Of Process And Judicial Stays Of Criminal Proceedings philpapers.org

The criminal courts have a power to stop a prosecution.

This power to stay proceedings which constitute an abuse of the process of the court has assumed great practical significance and is potentially applicable in many situations. Andrew L-T Choo

The basic principle is that it is for the prosecution, not the court, to decide whether a prosecution should be commenced and, if commenced, whether it should continue. Environment Agency v Stanford [1998] .

Know The Real Court Process: Learn The Rules Of Your Local Court

As ever, the 2019 edition of Archbold will be fully up-to-date with the latest legislation, including the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. Amendments have been made by the commencement of provisions of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and the Criminal Finances Act 2017 to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. In addition, amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015 (SI 2015/1490) and the Criminal Practice Directions 2015 are included, the highlight of which is the substitution of a new Part 22 (Evidence of a complainant’s previous sexual behaviour).

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“Following a survey of all Resident Judges in 2016, the decision was taken centrally to provide Blackstone’s Criminal Practice in every Crown courtroom in England & Wales. ”

Exposing Court Corruption – Civil & Parental Rights Advocacy

When someone starts a claim in the English courts for, say, a debt owed, and the defendant does not put in a defence, the claimant can simply ask the court to enter judgment for the sum claimed, and can bring enforcement proceedings based upon that judgment. In this procedure, the court is acting administratively, and typically no judge will be involved in the process. All very simple then.

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See on Scoop.it – Public Law Children Act Cases

In October, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued two rulings bolstering the rights of persons with psycho-social disabilities. Both cases were brought by Hungarian-Slovakian disability rights activist János Fiala-Butora LL.M. ’10, an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School and an associate of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, known as HPOD. (see a feature about the program).

In one of the cases, Bures v. Czech Republic (PDF), the plaintiff, who had been hospitalized after he inadvertently overdosed on medication prescribed by his psychiatrist, was strapped to a bed for several hours, resulting in long-term injuries to his arms and ending his career as a cello player. He brought criminal charges, but they were dismissed.
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Absolute Immunity

Absolute Immunity

Absolute immunity is a form of legal immunity in contrast to qualified immunity. While qualified immunity, by its very nature, carries with it a set of conditions that must be fulfilled in order for the immunity to attach, an absolute immunity is unconditional.

Examples of absolute immunity include judicial immunity and legislative immunity.

1. Judicial immunity
2. Legislative immunity

Judicial Immunity

Judicial Immunity is a form of legal immunity which protects judges and others employed by the judiciary from lawsuits brought against them for judicial actions, no matter how incompetent, negligent, or malicious such conduct might be, even if this conduct is in violation of statutes.

United Kingdom

Immunity in proceedings

Historically, the general rule in the United Kingdom has been that the Crown has never been able to be prosecuted or proceeded against in either criminal or civil cases. The only means by which civil proceedings could be brought were:

• by way of petition of right, which was dependent on the grant of the royal fiat (i.e. permission);
• by suits against the Attorney-General for a declaration; or
• by actions against ministers or government departments where an Act of Parliament had specifically provided that immunity be waived.

The position was drastically altered by the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 which made the Crown (when acting as the government) liable as of right in proceedings where it was previously only liable by virtue of a grant of a fiat. With limited exceptions, this had the effect of allowing proceedings for tort and contract to be brought against the Crown. Proceedings to bring writs of mandamus and prohibitionwere always available against ministers, because their actions derive from the royal prerogative.^{[citation needed]}

Criminal proceedings are still prohibited from being brought unless expressly permitted by statute.

As the Crown Proceedings Act only affected the law in respect of acts carried on by or on behalf of the UK government, the monarch remains personally immune from criminal and civil actions.^[11] However, civil proceedings can, in theory, still be brought using the two original mechanisms outlined above – by petition of right or by suit against the Attorney-General for a declaration.

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Other immunities

The monarch is immune from arrest in all cases, and members of the royal household are also immune from arrest in civil proceedings. No arrest can be made “in the monarch’s presence”, or within the “verges” of a royal palace. When a royal palace is used as a residence (regardless of whether the monarch is actually living there at the time), judicial processes cannot be executed within that palace.

The monarch’s goods cannot be taken under a writ of execution, nor can distress be levied on land in their possession. Chattels owned by the Crown, but present on another’s land, cannot be taken in execution or for distress. The Crown is not subject to foreclosure.

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Squatters Rights

According to government guidance, squatters can apply to become the registered owners of a property if they have occupied it continuously for 10 years, acted as owners for the whole of that time and had not previously been given permission to live there by the owner.

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The Private Rental Market

The Deception In London’s Private Rental Market Is A Genuine Issue

Starting from the top, the swindle in London’s private renting is a reality. This fraud is perpetrated through the Private Renting Scheme, also known as affordable housing, and is largely orchestrated by an underground network of council employees.

Has anyone noticed how England removed the homeless from the streets during the first lockdown?

This confirmed what many suspected: homeless people are needed to generate income for various services, even as the pandemic continues. It’s about jobs. When the council offers a ‘forever home,’ they often place black women next to unsavory neighbors, ensuring no peace, or in undesirable apartments that remain vacant, causing financial losses.

The idea to allocate such properties to those in need of housing was someone’s brainchild. Hillingdon Council has not yet justified their actions, and the Royal Court of Justice has not clarified the outcome of the related case. One should never expect the council to be forthcoming with the truth, as honesty is not in their job description.

Moreover, individuals with full-time jobs resort to sofa-surfing or sleeping in parks. The government prefers to conceal the truth and portray the homeless in a way that elicits public sympathy, thereby maximizing fundraising potential.

This situation was not accidental but intentional, and they were caught in the act:

“The Home Office has been criticized by a judge for sending war veterans to live on the asylum barge Bibby Stockholm,” reported by Matthew Dresch on Sunday, 21 April 2024.

Employment boost of 200,000 as cost of living support extended

Cost-of-Living Payments

The DWP has created a webpage for individuals to report a missed payment. The government’s guidance on the page states: “Most individuals should have received their £301, £300, and £299 Cost of Living Payments, as well as the £150 Disability Cost of Living Payment for the years 2023 and 2024. If you were expecting one of these Cost-of-Living Payments but have not received it, you can report it as missing. You will need your National Insurance number for this. If your National Insurance number is lost, instructions are available on how to retrieve it. Before reporting a missing payment, please verify your bank, building society, or credit union account, or check your Payment Exception Service voucher receipt. Note that the payment will be processed separately from your regular benefits.”

DWP issues new guidance on PIP eligibility

New guidelines from the DWP on PIP eligibility have been released. Personal Independence Payment, or PIP, provides assistance to those who deal with a chronic disease or other disability.

Payments have increased 10.1 percent from this week along with many other benefits, including Universal Credit.

Guidance

PIP handbook

Updated 7 February 2024

• Contents
• Conditions of entitlement
• Assessment criteria
• Access to other benefits and services
• PIP and existing DLA claimants
• How to make a claim
• Completing the ‘How your disability affects you’ form
• Assessment process and assessment providers
• Decision and payment
• Changes in circumstances
• If a claimant might have 12 months or less to live
• Supporting young people to claim
• Disputes

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Employment boost of 200,000 as cost-of-living support extended.

Employment boost of 200,000 as cost-of-living support extended.

Plans to boost economic activity while supporting vulnerable people with the cost of living will be driven through by Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride, as the Government unveiled its Budget for Long Term Growth. From: Department for Work and Pensions Published on 7 March 2024 (gov.uk).

Paedophiles To Lose Parental Rights Under New Law

It has taken them around twenty-years to create this new rule.

Abstract from ghe Independent Newspaper on Wednesday 17 April 2024, story by George Lithgow.

Under current rules, offenders may still have a right to be included when making important decisions about their children’s education, health and travel.

Labour MP Harriet Harman tabled an amendment to upcoming legislation which has been backed by the Lord Chancellor – who is responsible for the administration of the courts.

The new law will cover only the most serious sexual offence, rape of a child under 13, but Ms Harman said the rule could be “extended” to cover less serious sexual offences against children in the future.

It’s the rights of the child that should be at the forefront, not the rights of the father.

Harriet Harman

The “major and significant” law change is necessary to address the “glaring anomaly” of courts protecting other people’s children from child sex offenders but not the offender’s own, she said.

Some mothers have been forced to pay for legal action to prevent paedophile ex-partners from influencing their children’s lives, the Labour MP said.

“It doesn’t protect his own because his rights as a father trump the protection of his own child, which is obviously wrong,” Ms Harman told Radio 4’s Today.

“It’s the rights of the child that should be at the forefront, not the rights of the father.

“It’s just so glaringly obvious that it’s wrong to protect other people’s children but not protect his own.

“It’s the courts and the law that should step forward to protect children, not leave it to the mother, if she can, to go to court.”