Monday 28 November 2016

Giving Tuesday: Three Things To Help You Give And Earn More

To participate in Giving Tuesday, one must spend less on the Thursday's Turkey. One can say the two ideas are different unless they carefully plan their finances. To have both, spending must be under complete control and accounted for.

Nov. 29 is Giving Tuesday -- an early Christmas or a prelude to Christmas I must say -- and I have some ideas that may help you get your Thanksgiving and Giving Tuesday in check.

Participate In Sales Next Year

People who fill up stores during sales (especially the recent Black Friday) are people who may know they need to slowly build up their Giving Tuesday and Christmas gifting checklist, or they just buy things for less in bulk. Keep an eye out for shopping centre sales next year and make a checklist of gifts you want to give people you can get on sale for that month or bi-week.

Allot Some Money For It

Have a simple budget. For example, if you are earning £1800 monthly, just save at least £5 a month. When these sales come, blast off. You can freely spend this money you alloted, and you feel better spending because you know it will make someone else happy.

Thanksgiving Always


In this way, you have enough money to spend for your Thanksgiving dinner. Better, make people participating in your Thanksgiving dinner pitch in to make your dinner grander than you planned. It is fun because everyone participated, making it truly meaningful.

Tuesday 18 October 2016

Situations Where You Could File a Workplace Accident Claim

Workplace accidents are not a huge subject matter unless it happens to you. And when it does, the bills pile up and you need recompense especially if the fault is not your own.

Employers have a responsibility to keep your workplace safe. If there is a new building area being renovated or constructed, employers must warn their employees about the activity. The employers should also warn them of possible hazards beforehand as it is their responsibility.

Aside from renovations, there are three other problems that are often the cause of workplace accident injuries.


Malfunctioning Equipment

Equipment used by employees -- whether it be a computer terminal or a heavy-duty forklift -- should be kept under proper maintenance. Employers must ensure funding for the maintenance and cleaning of these equipment guarantees their proper function.

If in any event the equipment malfunctions and harms the employee, the employee can file a 
workplace accident claim against the employer.

If the equipment exploded or a component injured the employee through no fault of their own, they have the legal right to make a claim.

Site Renovations and Improvement

Workplaces get old. Maintenance can become a huge issue. Site renovations can be fairly common.

But if workplaces remain untended, they may cause issues. Electric wires exposed to employees may cause potential harm. If not addressed and an employee is injured, the employee has a right to a workplace accident claim.

Workplaces undergoing improvement will involved heavy machinery and possible debris that could injure employees. Without proper warning and restrictions to such areas, employees may head to these hazardous locations. If they become injured without these warnings, employers will shoulder the trouble in paying for accidents.

Act of God or Disasters

Disasters such as fire or storms that cause injuries or sicknesses among employees the employers must shoulder the responsibility of their medical attention.

If malfunctioning equipment or products cause the disaster, employers are still responsible for injuries if it happens within the premises.


Employers may contend against employees for reimbursement for their medical fees. Legal representation by no win no fee work injury solicitors have shown a huge success rate in ensuring your refunds from your employers.

Friday 16 September 2016

UK Authorities Fail To Honour "Due Diligence" In Deportation Proceedings

A report from the UK Human Rights Blog indicates that the European Court of Human Rights argued that part of an individual's detention pending deportation violated the right to liberty.
In its blog, it published the full background of the case.



An applicant with the initials 'VM', entered the United Kingdom illegally on November 18, 2003 with her son. The applicant came from Nigeria. When an interim care order had her charged of child cruelty, she pleaded guilty to avoid deportation to Nigeria.

Following her personal bail, she was once again arrested in September 2007 due to possession of false documentation with the intent to commit fraud. She was imprisoned for 9 months and was convicted of child cruelty charges in 2008 of April.

She was in detention for the rest of her sentence from August 2008. Pending deportation, she lodged a judicial review claim to review the lawfulness of her continuing detention. Hearings took place from July to August 2010 with her claims dismissed.

Having granted permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal, the Secretary of State conceded that her detention was unlawful from August 2008 to April 2010.

Reaching the Strasbourg Court, the violation was found as she was detained unlawfully because the authorities had failed to consider if the relevant policies were sufficient.


Friday 12 August 2016

Supreme Court Grants Travellers Right To Build Homes On Field

Travellers described as anti-social and causing ruckus by arson or the slaughter of domesticated animals have received the right to build their homes in a smaller site after their first request was rejected.



According to Government Inspector John Felgate, the travellers could "make good an accepted shortfall of pitches."

Felgate said the camp would be useful for traveller and gypsy pitches in the area and the harm would be "slight".

Resident condemned the decision. According to Local Councillor Maxine Chew:

”We are very, very disappointed that the inspector has chosen to ignore all that has happened before. It’s beyond everybody’s comprehension. They have been on that site illegally for seven years.

“The travellers are constantly putting in applications to stay there and every time an application is refused, they appeal.

“I know the neighbours have really been extremely upset because they have had to live with behaviour you just wouldn’t believe.

“The things that have gone on are beyond belief and they have had to live with this for almost seven years. The police are around there all the time because of drunkenness, poaching and damage to farmers’ crops.


“The anti-social behaviour just goes on and on and it’s very frustrating that this appeal has been accepted - especially after so much money and time has been spent on it.”

Thursday 14 July 2016

Chrissy Chambers Launches First UK Revenge Porn Suit

American singer and YouTube Sensation Chrissy Chambers of BriaAndChrissy fame files the first-ever UK revenge porn case in the United Kingdom.



Filing a case against a British national -- her ex boyfriend -- Ms Chambers hopes the case could see the creation of a similar law in the United States.

The YouTube star's intimate video has made rounds across different pornography sites in the United States. She believes her British ex-boyfriend spread it online recently to spite and vindicate her.

The McAllister Law Firm working on her behalf reported that it had "served papers" to the porn website that hosted the film.

Recently, Ms Chambers' case grew more popular after she had asked US Democratic Party Presidential Hopeful Hillary Clinton in a Los Angeles forum if a similar law in the UK about revenge pornography can be created.

Mrs Clinton said that she could not promise anything but she would do everything she could to tackle the burden carried by individuals such as Chrissy Chambers.

Ms Chambers' Lawyer Ann Olivarius said the latter was only 18 and young when the video was taken. It was observed she was drunk and unknowing during the recording of the video.


Ms Olivarius said the case will be a game-changer landmark case for the country.

Sunday 12 June 2016

Canadian Supreme Court Declares Bestiality Legal

Sexual activities with animals are now legal according to a surprise ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court. A British Columbian man with 13 counts of sexually assaulting his stepdaughters, including a count of bestiality, had the latter case dismissed as it fell short of a criminal act..

Bestiality - according to attorneys - was only linked to sodomy. Criminal acts against animals only begin with the 1892 criminal code.

According to the court, bestiality was often subsumed in terms such as sodomy or buggery where penetration was the essence. As the statement implies, a 7-1 majority ruled that bestiality required penetration. In the case of the British Columbian man, penetration with the animal was absent.

Justice Rosalie Abella dissented against the decision. She said acts with animals that have a sexual purpose are inherently exploitative whether or not penetration occurs.

The ruling could also propel the Canadian Parliament to reform outdated laws, according to Animal Justice representatives who brought the appeal to the Supreme Court.


According to Animal Justice Executive Director Camille Labchuck, Canadian law now grants all animal abusers the right to gratify themselves through animals with the decision. She said it was an unacceptable fact contrary to societal expectations and "thus cannot be allowed to continue."

Sunday 15 May 2016

Decriminalisation of UK Abortion Laws Face Huge Criticism

In the UK, it is against the law for women to terminate their foetus after 24 weeks unless there is a medical reason to do so.

The Royal College of Medicine is backing the British Pregnancy Advisory Service's (BPAS) call to remove abortion from criminal law.

RCM Chief Executive Professor Cathy Warwick is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees for BPAS

BPAS is calling for scrapping the legal limits on abortion, which would allow authorities further regulation of abortion activities in the United Kingdom.

However, about 200 midwives, according to Christian Concern, said they disown the RCM's decision to support the abolition of the abortion law.

The letter says that decriminalisation “would mean the introduction of abortion up to birth for any reason” and says the signatories object to the “extreme position”.

“It is out of keeping with what we take to be the ethic of our profession, as well as the consistently expressed wishes of British women with regards to the legality and regulation of abortion, and it has been taken with no consultation whatsoever of RCM membership,” it says.

A spokesman for the RCM confirmed it “did not consult on this issue”.


“The RCM’s constitution allows for our members to elect the RCM Board and for this body to set our strategic objectives. The positions we take are based on these agreed objectives,” he said.

Monday 18 April 2016

Europe Warned To "Get Tough" On Anti-Christian Migrants

An anonymous aid worker who understood Arabic has heard "anti-Christian" slurs from migrants in Europe.



He has called for European countries to get tough or face the consequences.

He said: "I'm not saying don't help them. I'm just saying they should respect your country and it has to get strong and tough."

Aid workers all over Europe and the world pass around relief goods, donated material and other items to migrants waiting for passage into European countries.

Most of these volunteers and aid workers are Christians.

The aid worker once provided money to a young girl separated from her husband. When he asked how the call went, the woman refused to talk to him, saying "Please, no I don't want to have to shower again."

Asking what she meant, the man already knew what she said. She had found out he was a Christian and she refused to touch him because he was 'filthy'.

The man revealed that in Arabic, the migrants would call aid workers "dirty Christian kuffars" or non-believers.

According to the man, European countries have to get tough.

“I am not saying don’t take them, I am saying your country needs to be strong, get tough.

“What happens is you let them build mosques and you let them practice their religion and then what? 
They don’t want to live by your rules. “You don’t know what is going on in mosques.


“You have to make it happen or it won’t be your country anymore. They have no intention of living under Christian law.”

Tuesday 15 March 2016

British Expats Want To Vote On The EU Referendum

I don't mind the delay they're causing cause hey, British expats are British, and they have the right to vote on national matters even if they're not here.



As the date comes closer, it might just be pushed back as UK expats attempt to overturn a legal ruling that would allow them to vote in the referendum from overseas.

About 700,000 UK nationals are living in different parts of the world. While the law mentions that any expat who has lived for more than 15 years outside the UK isn't eligible to vote in any referendum, I will welcome their demands.

Leigh Day seems to think the same thing as well.

The legal firm said the automatic exclusion breaks existing EU laws. As the UK is still in the EU, it is bound to respect these humanitarian laws.

Leigh Day said those who were excluded from overseas would be the most affected of a possible 
'Brexit' as it would affect their way of life and possibly their livelihoods.

A number of things could happen here. One would be their changed legal citizenship and rights abroad. Some EU countries provide different privileges that Britons can take advantage of in the continent.

A High Court judge is to decide whether to allow the judicial review to go ahead because the rule is legitimate.

Let's wait and see. More votes, more fun.

Thursday 11 February 2016

France Has A Draconian Law On Terrorists And Nationality

French President Francois Hollande is to pass a Draconian law that would leave French terrorists stateless.



As I recall, the United Nations specified that no criminal or terrorist may be stripped of their nationality despite their faults.

The law was drafted following the Paris attacks last November, which killed 130 people. Wanting tougher legal punishment for Jihadis, the French government needed the law. Or maybe not.

The National Assembly passed the legislation last Wednesday.

Local and international analysts criticised the law for being draconian and divisive. According to FT writer James Blitz, it strip terrorists of their nationality, which can create a divide in the country as France has its own share of immigrants.

Not everyone in the French government agreed to the enactment of the law though. Justice Christiane Taubira, France's Justice Minister, had resigned after the enactment of the law. According to French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, he was "philosophically uncomfortable" about passing the law.

Terrorism is a serious crime. Many governments have passed proposals introducing new and devastating laws against terrorists to quell down the numbers of militants heading abroad to fight with extremist groups.


The new law passed by France may only encourage terrorism as it also victimises nationality. We'll just have to wait and see.

Wednesday 13 January 2016

UK Justice System The Most Unaffordable To Date

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd was the first lord Chief Justice to say that UK's civil justice system is only for the rich now. Well, that's because they cut our legal services benefit. Now, we're forced to represent ourselves.



After reading the Lord's report, the £780m spending for modernising the courts with new technology was well-spent.

However the new budget and the technological upgrades themselves have made the price for justice higher for the lower tiers of society.

The progression of costs have been too steep, to be honest. I have to agree with him when he said that the access to justice has become marginalised.

What may be causing this situation?

To be honest, no one knows. But I can speculate one thing.

There is a need to modernise the laws in the UK. Another is, to protect the UK from possible economic troubles, public legal services spending had to be cut.

Another way is that it solves the problem of piling cases in the UK courts. While modernisation through technology improves the quality of service and time needed to process a case, it also reduces the number of petty to medium-serious cases coming in.

But then, why are judges saying that their work had increased significantly in the last three years?

It's a weird UK nowadays.