There are a lot of factors that go into my defence. Becoming an unpaid carer for my nan since she had a stroke after i moved in with her shortly after being arrested ( very shit situation, partially blame myself ), completely moved away from origin area, held a job in that area, in a pub and now a valued member of that community. Changed my lifestyle considerably. I’ve gone from on getting drunk and such to going hiking and mountaineering every weekend. I need to hear something good because its been two years since i was originally arrested and this is stressing me the hell out. Cambridgeshire, uk

Hi everyone, lil bit of a back story I used to have an onlyfans which I stopped working on, I posted last time I think a month ago but that was meant to be my last post and more of a throwback moment.

I am currently dealing with health issues(mental )which is why I stopped what I was doing , I never really had any issues with it but deicided to stop posting on social media so I could focus on me 100%

I recently started getting threats over Instagram stating that I should kill myself and that they are going to send all of my content to my family. This is obviously coming from fake accounts all the time. I am getting a bit get up with this as I am still in recovery over a suicide attempt and it’s not helping my case. My account is private and all of that but I still get the message request notification and follow requests anyways which is why I actually read these.

Does anyone know if I can go to the police with this or something, I don’t know if the police will be able to do anything considering I myself have no clue who this person is.

Please don’t say anything mean, I’m here to ask for advice not to get means comments about my life Thank you

My country is portugal

Posting here again, and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

My partner and i live in an apartment with a temporary contract in the Netherlands.

When we first told the landlord about moving out early, he said that we would have to find someone to take over ours, and then sign an additional 1 year contract.

We were really worried because we couldn't find anyone, but then my partner found out that according to Dutch law, we're allowed to terminate the lease with sufficient notice.

We sent the landlord a WhatsApp message of the notice and our explanation, as well as an email based off a template we found online. We're also going to send a registered letter tomorrow.

Our landlord reads the WhatsApp text and says that it's not how a 1 year contract works and that we don't know dutch law so don't talk about that.

We've triple checked in Article 7:271 (which our contract also refers to) and a bunch of websites, but im worried if we missed anything and might get into trouble.

We're still living here for a couple more weeks so i want to make sure it's at least worth the harrassment we'll get.

Once again, sorry for the long post, and we'd really appreciate any advice and/or support 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Booked a hotel in Klagenfurt, Austria, via booking.com. The hotel reception is completely unmanned. I waited 25 mins to check in earlier today, hotel didn't respond to messages and I only got in when restaurant staff came in to set up.

They scanned my passport and gave me my key. I left my things in my room and went out. I got back and I couldn't get in because they had locked all the doors. Reception again didn't respond so called booking.com, who called them, and after 40 mins got back in.

While I was outside I saw through the restaurant window that the scan they took of my passport was on the desk, face up, clearly visible to anyone on the street.

Flight home isn't until Wednesday. Booked through Ryanair. Got Ryanair insurance.

I have no money to get another hotel - I am a student, this is a research trip. Am I stuck with this hotel? Considering I can't enter or leave, does booking.com have an obligation here?

I recently had issues with my Apple’s latest Pro Max, it is under warranty (1-year limited). Which has turned into a big fiasco. About a month ago the midsection of the phone was replaced with a genuine Apple part, after this I started having performance issues, and also realised that the phone hasn’t been reassembled properly. Leading to dust entirely the device. Upon a second complaint, I was told that there was wrong placement of screws during repair 1, which left my phone exposed. They claimed to have “cleaned” the phone, fixed the screws, and closed it properly this time. My performance issue complaint was mostly ignored.

I still faced the lagging and overheating issue and found more visible dirt in the camera system even after the “cleaning”. I raised a complaint again and was given a service appointment. This time, they offered to “clean” it again, but I refused this solution as it did not make any difference the first time, they offered to replace the midsection stating that I might have a faulty part again, upon which I asked why was this solution not offered the last time. Their replies were confusing and shady as they flipped their statements every time I cross questioned.

Eventually I asked for a refund under the consumer protection law. This time they said they can offer me a replacement device under the 1-year warranty but a refund can only be claimed after two attempts of repair have not fixed the device. And their second service was just “cleaning” and not a repair. I was then snobbishly told that I can go to lawyers and challenge this legally. I contacted Apple support again but now they have been mostly telling me that I can get my phone fixed as it’s under warranty and consumer protection law isn’t needed. What are my options in this case? Thanks for the advices in advance.

Tldr; Apple service center says refund under consumer protection law isn’t an option because them fixing the mistake from earlier repair does not qualify as a repair in itself (refund possible only after two failed unsatisfactory repair attempts).

Repost because I got no answers😭

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So 2 months ago ir so l ordered a clothing piece for 220€ (actually the same piece twice in different sizes because I was unsure). When the 2 boxes get home, one of them is empty. The other one was 2 small so l returned it right away.

I contact customer support to notify them about the empty package and naturally ask for a refund. A really long email conversation goes on since they're doing everything possible to not refund me, they even ask me to ask the courier to lead an investigation (???) when they're the ones who have to do that (I contacted DHL that's what they told me). The good thing is that I paid through KLARNA, so I can still go through their buyer protection to NOT PAY.

That's what l do, a month or so after my order, Klarna allows me not to pay my order. It doesn't end here sadly.

But yesterday I receive an email from BSTN, telling me I have a pending payment (???). Basically they sent me an invoice. I contacted KLARNA again, to ask them what's going on. They can't do anything the situation apparently.

I am now hesitating to pay these scumbags, since l don't want to get sued or something.

What should I do?

Yesterday at night my sister found a cat when she and her Boyfriend were going back to their car, the cat has a broken tail, is really dirty and had some big mats behind the ears. They cut the mats and there is some wounds. The cat is a white maine coon and is really friendly. Today we went to the vet to see if the cat as a owner. The vet told us that they knew the cat and if the cat still wasn't registered to take the cat to our home because this was a recuring problem. Then we found out that the cat was registered this week and we had to call the owner to give back the cat. We called the owner and she was really rude and told us to just put it in the street. I refused but said that I will put it there when the temperature drops (its around 30°C and UV index very high) and she said that the cat is hers and she does what she wants and she disconected the call while I was still talking. We also told the owner that the vet said this cat has a really big risk of skin cancer and she said she didnt care. Is there any legal way to save this cat from this horrible person?

I am currently divorcing my wife, one child (5), we live in Europe (our jurisdiction is France if that ever matters). She filed for divorce first and for an urgent court decision to take the child to her native country 10,000km away. Supposedly she has a job lined up there (pretty sure its fake). The start of that job more or less coincides with the start of school summer holidays here in early July.

Now I’m a a catch 22. If she wins, she can legally take the child to her country where she will have full custody. I need to trust her to abide by the visitation agreement (she would have to bring the child to France). If I win, I will get full custody for the timing being. But normally I would also need to propose visitation, naturally, and that would naturally fall within the summer holidays. So even she loses, she can still legally take the child to her country in July. Sure, it would be temporarily - but the child could not be prevented from leaving France. She only starts breaking the court order once she does not return by the agreed time.

Thing is, she will not return. I am sure she would have already left had she access to the child’s passports. My lawyer is only starting to understand the gravity of the situation (he’s like: if she loses, surely she will abide by the judgement, because if not she will face criminal charges and you will automatically get full custody if she does something dodgy. I’m like, none of what a French court says has any meaning when she is in her country 10,000km away with a “different” legal culture, let’s put it diplomatically).

Anyone been in a similar situation and can share what they did to convince the court that a normal visitation schedule is very dangerous and that the child cannot leave the country?

My flight from the US to the EU was delayed by more than four hours so I tried to claim compensation from BA who responded with the following:
"As your flight was delayed due to the planned aircraft experiencing a lightning strike on the previous sector, resulting in an aircraft change, it means you’re not eligible for compensation.
Article 5.3 of the EU Regulation 261/2004 and The Air Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licencing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 states a carrier is not obliged to pay compensation if it can prove the delay or cancellation is caused by extraordinary circumstances, that couldn’t have been avoided even if all reasonable measures had been taken."
Many online articles claim that lightning strikes are NOT a valid excuse for airlines to avoid paying flight delay. Is there anything I can do in this situation? I am considering making a complaint via CEDR is this just a waste of money?
Thanks!

Hello,
TLDR : Bulgarian Police has issued a fine more than two years (March 2024) after a speeding-limit violation was commited (July 2021). Article 34(1) of the Administrative violations and Sanctions Act states that proceedings cannot be instituted if more than a year has passed since the commission of a given violation. Am I right to say this fine should not have been issued in the first place, and to tell the rental car company to appeal against the fine?
Full version :
I visited your country back in 2021 with a car rented in Romania. The rental company just sent me a notification issued by the Bulgarian Police on 12/03/2024 for a speeding-limit violation commited in July 2021. I am very surprised, as in other countries police has up to a year to notify you or the infraction is no longer punishable. I have done a little investigation of Bulgarian law and I found the following:
Article 189a of the Road Traffic Act (https://www.mrrb.bg/en/road-traffic-act-rules-on-the-implementation-of-the-road-traffic-act/) deals with violations commited with vehicles registered in another EU member state and sets no specific time limits for notification of violations.
I have quickly scanned the whole Road Traffic Act and I see no special provisions for a time limit on enforcement of violations.
So, in absence of special provisions, Article 34(1) of the Administrative Violations and Sanctions Act (https://www.cik.bg/upload/56763/Administrative+Violations+and+Sanctions+Act.pdf) states that "Administrative-penal proceedings shall not be instituted if a statement of establishment of the violation has failed to be drawn up within three (3) months following the detection of the offender, or if one (1) year has elapsed since the commission of such violation".
To my understanding, issuing this fine is against Article 34 of this law, as more than a year (actually more than two) have passed since the violation was commited. Am I right to say that the police has no right to issue this fine and should I suggest the rental company to appeal against it?
Thank you a lot in advance for your help.

I was traveling from Greece to Eindhoven and I had my laptop inside my luggage and I checked in (ik big mistake) and well, it broke. Nothing on the outside, a few scratches, but it wont turn on even if I have it plugged in. It doesn't show a little light to show that it receives electricity. I was flying with Ryanair if that helps. I need my laptop for assignments and I have some money for emergencies like these, but I think one of the companies involved should pay for the service since they broke it. Who I should talk to, the airline or the airports? I am not currently in Eindhoven, I went to Amsterdam and then I saw the damages

I have enrolled in a school, made the necessary prepayment, and uploaded the required documents to extend my student visa in France. However, I am currently uncertain about my ability to continue studying in the next academic year and whether I will be able to make the full payment. If my visa extension is approved and granted for the entire year, but I am later unable to stay in France, would this pose any issues from the perspective of the French government? Moreover, if I decide to reapply for any type of visa in the following year, could this situation potentially cause any problems?

I had a significant medical emergency while hiking at the frozen german Alps, some weeks ago. From the edge of a cliff, at a really narrow, slippery and snowy trail, I was taken by a helicopter rescuing company, along with a friend. To summon it, we took 6 hours to be able to go trough a area that should take 2 hours to do so, it was starting to get dark, we were getting even colder, stuck in the same place for more than 1 hour, trying to figure out if it was less dangerous to go further or go back. And after 3 panic attacks that I had along the way there, the last one came and I couldn't move anymore without crying, screaming and have my hole body shaking as hell. To add some more, my friend started panicking at some point too. This friend was the one who called his health insurance, and then the emergency local "crew" and asked for aid.

So, I'm a German and Brazilian citizen, based in Basel, Switzerland. I just moved into the city, and I'm registered here for not even a month yet. The week right before we went to this tragic adventure, I did got my "L" swiss living permission, a "looking for a job" visa, for 6 months. Well, I haven't bough a health insurance plan yet, and when I do it (and according to the visa attendant that made my paperwork, I should do it ASAP) I'll have to pay retroactive to the date I got my living permission. What can be good new, if there's a way for it to help with the costs. Also, I have a brazilian traveling health insurance valid from before the event, until the middle of may.

My friends health insurance says that they won't cover any costs, because we weren't taken to a hospital, so they don't recognize ir as a medical emergency. We were indeed not injured or had some physical trauma, but I did find it very weird, as we got out of the helicopter and just lead to a place that looked like the staff of the air rescuing company area to take breaks, and no nurse or doctor came to see us or anyone asked further questions about what happened or if we need something. At the moment I was so shaken, and since I'm not familiarized with Europe, living my hole life in Brazil, that I just though that it was probably the "german way" to deal with it.

Dear reddit fellows, you can imagine... the bill that came to my house was for a amount of 6000 euros and my friend received another one with the same amount. Yet, as it seams, there is another one coming, costing around 1000 euros. A total of f*cking 13.000 euros, or even more.

Well, although I've came from Brazil to Switzerland with my financial reserve, as I said, I'm unemployed and I'm really not able to pay for it right now.

So the questions are:

1. What are the consequences if I fail to pay these bills, other then having significant fees added over it?
2. How much would these fees cost? Do they expire after some years if I don't pay it? (that could happen in Brazil)
3. Will any swiss health insurance cover or reimburse the expenses? Which are they?
4. Is there any financial aid from german or swiss states in case of a mental disorder emergency? Even if it was not diagnosed at that moment, I might get some document to prove it with my doctor or psychologist.
5. Is there any financial aid from german or swiss states for persons with mental disorder in general? Such as a monthly support or something like that. I've heard possibilities like that.

Do you have any others insights, ideais or suggestions about all of this?
I'll reeaally apreciate them, trully.

(I don't have the name of my friend's insurance right now, I'll post it here when I do)

Long story short...

I (in England) have carried out some work for someone in Spain and they haven't paid the invoice from January. I have emailed 3 extra times chasing the unpaid invoice but there is radio silence.

What's my best course of action here?

TIA

I am facing a situation where the law clearly states I am allowed to do X, but the government office in charge of these matters says I can't. I was even able to obtain FOIA documents of internal government communications in which this office wrote that the law I'm referring to does exist and works the way I claim it does. But every time I contact them I get a low level customer service rep who gives me an inaccurate template reply and refuses to run my query up their line of command.
If all else fails, what kind of lawyer would I need to force (in a court of law) this government office to change their answer and stop giving me false information?
The alternative would be to proceed with doing X even though they say I can't, and then litigate it after the fact. This would be very risky and therefore I am looking for a way to preemptively deal with it. But it is tricky, since at this point I don't yet have any damages that can be awarded (unless you count banging my head against the wall after dealing with them). I think I need an injunction. Or does this fall within administrative law? Any guidance would be appreciated.

I am based in Germany. What are my rights? I already signed the contract with employer A but I prefer to join employer B, but can I just email them, let them know my decision, and not show up for my first day?

The clause in my contract refers to quitting during the probation period, but nothing relating to quitting BEFORE the probation period? Is there a legal difference in Germany?

In my contract there is a clause to give a month’s notice during probation period, but no clause mentions anything about BEFORE probation period. Therefore I am wondering whether it might be cleaner and simpler and better to announce I won’t be joining before actually starting the contract?

Thanks so much!

Hi all. A year ago i had a flight delayed for about 6 hours. While in the airport i randomly filled the some forms of flight-delayed.co.uk then totally forgot about it. All their emails went to spam. A month ago i am receiving an email from them IN INBOX that i have to pay £150. They did NOT give me any money but, my boyfriend has made a claim and got the money from the airline last year in around may, 1 month later than our flight. My mistake was that i completely forgot about the other one but now they are chasing me to pay for their services. Their website says no gain no pay so they didn't do anything for me and how did they not know for a year that we were paid already? Also my boyfriend already paid the other company so if i have to pay them now we re basically left with nothing from what we got. Should i just pay and learn my lesson or ignore them? Flight was london to italy. i was living in london when i did the claim but now i live in italy.

Hello, recently I bought my first car e60 2004 and I contacted my country BMW representative to change the positive battery cable since it had warranty. I had to lend the car to my mechanic to fix some issues and my positive cable shorted in my mechanic's garage. and caught fire. What would you do if you were in my situation? I did not sign any papers that I lend the car to the mechanic and the insurance wont pay out because I didn't have the full coverage

I have an Austrian license plate and I had a car accident recently at the autobahn caused by a Slovenian license plate holder. He took complete responsibility for the accident and my car is now at the workshop. An initial assessment has been conducted yesterday in Austria but a report on repair or total loss is yet to be confirmed and I was informed from the opposing insurance company that this would take a few more days. The opposing insurance company is headquartered at Austria (Graz) but also has Slovenian branches where the accident perpetrator has taken his insurance from. I am totally fine with all the time consumption for assessment, repairs and so on. But what I really need is a replacement or a rental car. As per OEAMTC (Oesterreichischer Automobil-, Motorrad- und Touringclub) website (link below) I am entitled for rental car if the accident was caused outside of Austria. I informed the opposing insurance company about this and they said that they aren’t sure about this and this would take more than week to resolve due to the policy being Slovenian. I have contacted a lawyer and I haven’t received any response yet. A replacement car is really necessary for me as I don’t have a reasonable means of transport to work. What should I do in this case?

Can I go to a rental car company and provide the opposing insurance details and contact info who is handling my case so that the rental car company can directly contact them?

Can I take a rental car on my own costs now and claim the bill later with the opposing insurance?

https://www.oeamtc.at/mitgliedschaft/leistungen/rechtsberatung/leihwagen-nach-unfall-geltendmachung-der-kosten-25515008

Got a notifications while driving that I’m followed by an air tag , later found it under body work of my car , police called statement made . What’s next , what to do if nothing happens , or if they found who put it there? Latvia 🇱🇻

Okay so this is quite a long one, my cousin (currently 16) doesn't have the best relationship with her parents. I visit her a lot and she's my best friend so when I found out the reason she didn't have any money was because she was trying to pay her mom back for 'going to the dentist' I was suprised. Now we live in the Czech republic so we don't have to pay as many bills as Americans but you do have to pay at the dentist sometimes and it does get expensive. She was around 14 when this happened, obviously I don't want her to take it to court or something, it just doesn't feel really right. Does anyone know if they can actually make her pay this or anything else that would be helpful in this situation?

Hi, I (17M), have been invited my bf (18M) to travel into Spain this summer for a week with him and his family. I'm aware there's a travel rule where you're meant to have about $100 per day in order to stay in the country. I can't afford that! Since I'm under 18 and travelling as part of his family unit, wondered if it would be fine if asked to just direct them to his parents since we're travelling all together?

I booked a hotel in Spain for my family back in January via Hotels.com. I booked a 5* apartment hotel so I’d have a kitchen to store breast milk & be able to sterilise my child’s bottles/pump.

A few weeks ago, they said from April 1st the hotel is now adults only, and they’d be changing our hotel to a 4* twin bed room in a different location.

I called hotels.com since that’s who I have the booking with, and spent 2 hours on the phone and got nowhere. They tried to contact the hotel and ask for a better arrangement due to the need for the space to sterilise/store the milk, however they refused. They offered a refund, but that would mean I’d have to book a whole new hotel, less than 2 weeks from my departure so everything left was incredibly expensive for a like for like hotel (the only one I found was £2k), and if I accepted the refund I’d lose my flights, speedy boarding, parking etc. In short, Hotels.com only offered to refund me, or offer £200 towards a new hotel, however that wasn’t nearly enough for a like for like hotel to the one we booked.

Am I just out of luck? I can’t understand how the hotel can just change policy merely weeks before we were due to arrive. Any help will be appreciated, I suspect there isn’t anything I can do but thought it would be worth asking. Thank you in advance.

Ok so, this may be a bit of a long explanation, but please bear with me. Here's the in depth situation:

My grandma which with my grandpa's legal agreement, donated the house to my mother, in which me, my father and mother are currently living in which is located in a small city in Bulgaria.

Now this part of the explanation I'm a bit fuzzy on... My grandmother seems to have made several contracts on unknown to me contents to several businesses that usually supply wifi, phone numbers, tv cable, and contracts concerning those three things to the populace called from three different businesses which I'll withhold the names of. The part I'm fuzzy on is, my father explained to me at first that my grandmother may owe two of the three mentioned businesses fees, but said nothing of the last one. The second time I talked with them, my mother and father both said that she only owed payments from the last mentioned business. As implied during those contracts, it seems she hadn't paid her monthly dues, for as long as the contracts had persisted.

After multiple tries to reason with my grandmother to make her come to them and pay her dues to them, and failing every time, they seem to have left her number to a debt collection business. And after that that debt collection business seems to have made multiple calls to my grandmother, which cost money just to go through with them. One example is, a call before tax was applied which cost 16 BGN, became over 300 BGN after the tax was applied.

Now for the final part of this explanation. My grandmother may have incurred a five or even six numbered figure. My question is, if she can be proven to be senile, can the debt be avoided to be paid? If not, will the donated house, and the apartment that legally belongs to her and my grandfather be legally possessed and sold off to pay off the debt?

Hi! My family and I are currently visiting Rome, Italy and we’ve had a rather unfortunate experience with a taxi driver, he did not state is fare from the airport to Rome and he got rather aggressive, he asked for the money before we reached our destination with was almost 40 minutes away, when we explained that we would give him the money after he got incredibly angry and started driving very fast and aggressive. When we finally reached our destination, he threw our luggage’s out of the car and started taking pictures of us, myself, my cousin, aunt, uncle and father. Is there anything he can do with those photos or was it a scare tactic? Thank you so much for helping out!!

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me...
My father died in Italy a few weeks ago. He has lived there for over 30 years and was born in the UK.
I was told by him that he owned land and the property on the land. Which I have listed over the years.
His estranged but still married wife told me at the beginning of last week that the land and property would be split between her and his children (me being included)
Things recently seem to have changed, he went from owning 4 cars to her saying they were all in her name or scrapped. Today she has said in an email that the land is registered to her and the house was never registered so it cannot be divided.
Is there a way I can find out if this is true?
Thanks Reddit wizards.

First of all, I'm native spanish, so excuse me if something is bad written or doesn't make a lot of sense.

To put you in context, Im actually studying 3D Modeling and Animation, I'm studying in Spain in something called FP (Vocational training).

Thins morning this teacher came in class asking us to make some homework like normal. This subject is about photoshop and programming. And for today she had "prepared" for us a "new" thingy for homework about a campaign for a company. In summary, each one of us have to design a logo and do an advertising about a recreational diving "fictional company".

It turns out that with a little of research some of us found out that this is a real company which our teacher is the boss' friends. Can you see where I'm going?

Now we have to do 20 literally free advertising campaigns for this company with literally 0 reward. Not even the qualification.

Is this legal by any means?

Hi, just got an email and it seems ridiculous, I waited over a month for any refund for shoes I sent back to be processed, I eventually was refunded 45 euro. Almost three weeks after this refund was processed, I receive this email stating that it turns out the shoes I sent back are actually not resellable and I must pay them back what was refunded. They attached photos and I don’t doubt that they don’t seem resellable (although they seem completely different to when I sent them back but alas) but it seems insane that this is what they tell me after 2 months of me sending it back, and 3 weeks of having already processed the refund.

Greetings, I am currently situated in Germany and am inquiring about the potential legal ramifications associated with the hypothetical scenario wherein I contemplate the removal of an Israeli flag and its replacement with a Palestinian flag within the confines of a private building.

Any insights into the legal implications of such actions within this context would be greatly appreciated.

yeah, title says about it

Basically over chinese new years my relatives gave ME red packets, not to my mother, but my she took it and pocketed it, whenever I talk to her about letting me spend the money given to me, she just says stuff like "you're irresponsible with your money" or "I'll give it to you when you're 18" and basically giving every excuse from neptune to the sun, trying not to give me my money that is rightfully mine

I am 13 years old, living here in a residence permit and a chinese passport, my mother is chinese as well but with a dutch passport, we are both living in the Netherlands

Is there any ways I can take her to something equivalent to american small claims court and force her to hand over the money? I have posted this before, taken all of your advice and none of them worked, she adamantly refuses to hand over the money
I dont want to leave home as I have nowhere to go in the netherlands, all my relatives are in china and I really dont want to live in china due to all my friends and most of my life being in the netherlands

Edit: I forgot to mention she's extremely petty when it comes to this, when I argued to her about this recently, she said because of this we won't ever go back to china during new years, and any red packets given to me she will decline, just because she doesnt get the money