zoidberg

You don't actually need legal advice to carry out a summons through the County Court, though talking to people in the know can help you, but it is not required. The point about the County Court process is that it's meant to be a cheap way to recover money and therefore professional legal advice - such as using solicitors it not necessary. When you contact the County Court to obtain the summons form for you to complete, ask them for the information leaflets. They've easy to follow, very helpful and they've won a Campaign For Plain English award for being easy to understand. Those leaflets will explain everything, just follow what they say. In a large number of cases, you will not recover the money you are owned, ( I think the statistics are something like 30% of all county court claimants actually recover the money they are owed). If the defendant wishes to fight the claim and drag it out, they can. There is actually a very easy way to stop the legal process dead in its tracks - but I'm not going to disclose what that is - the courts have no real power. Sure, you can send in the baliffs to recover the goods the defendant owns for them to be sold to repay you, but the whole process only works if the defendant is willing to co-operate, if they want to be stubborn then they can get round it. Most people in my experience will ignore any letters you send them in relation to threatening Court action, until, finally, the summons form ends up on their doorstep, at that point, most people act and pay up. Before taking legal action consider: The likely hood of your obtaining your money from the defendant..does he have the ability to pay? Is he in a full time job and do you know who his employer is? ( you can obtain an attachment of earnings order if you know these details to have the money sent to you directly out of his pay packet) Does the defendant own any possessions which can be recovered by baliffs and sold? Is the defendant nomadic, can he up and run and change addresses easily to avoid court action? This caught me out in one case I pursued. It's your responsiblity to trace the defendant, unfortunately. If he changes address you're stuffed and the process will come to a halt (sure, he fails to reply and he gets a CCJ awarded against him).

I'm leaving hhplace for various personal reasons. Anyone know how to delete the profile? I can't find the magic button. zoidberg

It's been show that there's a correlation between the length ( or shortness) of ladies' skirts and the economic performance of the country at the time. Economic performance was very high of the UK during the 60's when skirts were at their shortest. I wonder if there's any such correlation with high heels?

I don't think you could be sued (in the UK anyway) for taking an unauthorised photo of a person's shoes or boots. If you take a picture of their face, or they are clearly intended to be the subject of the photograph then you could fall fowl under copyright laws. I think then the subject of the photograph would own the copyright in the image unless they had signed a waiver, often referred to as a "model release" form. The model release form simply states that the photographer can do what they want with the photo, can benefit commercially from it and that the model (subject in the photo) has no future claim to any revenue the photographer receives from sale of the photo. Zoidberg.

I think Firefox has nit the nail on the head. It's not too bad at the moment, I'll agree with that. There are two users, sally herself and her webmaster. I have no objection to a few preview type images, but when messages are posted saying something like "come to the website and let's see if we can get 10,000 hits with in the first five days", something like that which has happened I think under the Sally ID, then that's a bit blatent.

It seems to me that some of the messages posted by Sallys World Webmaster are designed to solicit business on their website. Although we have users on here post messages and may refer people to their own personal website containing further photos, these personal websites tend to be just that - personal, private sites not for profit. And, the hhplace member posting the messages is usually the person in the photos on the website. It might be a slightly different matter if it was Sally herself was posting messages, but her webmaster? I don't know specifically what the rules of hhplace.org are, can someone give a statement on this please? - it seems to me that primary purpose of Sallys-world-webmaster user is nothing short of advertising. There is a forum for that and this user has posted already in there, so do we really want this message board full of these kind of messages all over it? I personally don't want advertising messages being thrust in my face all the time.

I had trouble buying boots for my ex and she was a size 4! Acquiring size 3 or smaller must be extremely difficult.