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4 Tips to File a Criminal Injury Compensation Claim
By Diana Joseph

Crime is a threat to society. Wanton criminal acts injure people, and even take lives. Victims of crime are therefore compensated by the State to make up for the losses they suffered. In the UK, criminal injury compensation claims are handled by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA).

A person can file a criminal injury compensation claim in the following instances:

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• Physical or mental injury. Physical and/or mental injuries resulting from violent crime are compensated. This however does not usually include unintentional hurt, such as caused in a car accident for instance.

• Death of a relative. Certain relatives, such as the spouse, parent, or child of a person who dies due to a criminal act, can claim compensation.

If you ever need to file a criminal injury compensation claim, here are four tips to help you:

1. File a police complaint. The first thing to do if you have been criminally injured is to file a complaint with the police. This is important because police reports will form important evidence for the CICA while processing your criminal injury compensation claim. In the absence of a police report, the CICA may even refuse to entertain your claim. If you were assaulted while you were on professional duty, you should also inform your employer.

2. Claim in time. The law requires you to file your criminal injury compensation claim within two years of receiving the injuries. Claims filed after two years, however, may be entertained at the discretion of the CICA, if it thinks that there was a valid reason. An example of this would be if you became aware of an injury only some time after the accident that caused it, and applied for compensation.

3. Provide evidence. The amount of compensation you receive depends on the extent of hurt you have suffered. Provide full details of your injuries, the treatment you received, and existing symptoms if any, while filing your criminal injury claim.

4. Follow up on your claim. Criminal injury compensation cases may take several months to process.

It helps if you follow up on your claim by using the unique reference number given by the CICA, while filing your claim.

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Diana Joseph has an in-depth knowledge in dealing with injury claims. She has written numerous articles on injury claims issues, particularly those involving car accident and other topics of claims.

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5 Steps to Hiring a Personal Injury Lawyer
By Diana Joseph

If you have suffered due to an accident, you can file a personal injury claim to recover compensation for your losses. However, the process for filing a claim may require complicated legal formalities. Hiring a lawyer will relieve you of unnecessary hassles and ensure that you win a good claim.

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True, a lawyer may greatly increase your chance of winning your claim. However, professional legal services do not come cheap. How can you make the right choice while hiring a personal injury lawyer? Here are five steps to follow:

1. Look for specialization. Law is a diverse field and competent lawyers are often experts in their specific areas of specialization. For your case, you need to look for a lawyer who has experience with personal injury claims.

2. Rely on testimonials. While local Yellow Pages will carry a long listing of lawyers, there is no way you can be sure about their credentials. The best way to find out about good lawyers is through references from people, such as your friends and colleagues. This way you will get unbiased opinions that you can trust.

3. Get inside information. Once you have shortlisted a few names, try to get more information from within their professional circle. This is what you need to ask: are these lawyers well connected and do they have a reputation for winning the cases they take up?

4. Fix up an interview. Once you have decided on a personal injury lawyer to handle your case, fix up an appointment with him. Discuss your case with him and ask him for an assessment.

5. Negotiate a 'no win, no fee' contract. Always insist on a 'no win no fee' contract. According to this, your lawyer can recover his fees from your opponent, subject to your winning the claim. This way you do not have to pay money to win your legitimate compensation.

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The web encourages lies and deceit.

It's impossible to know who lurks behind a funny nickname

On the whole, I can't complain too much about the readers who respond to my column online. The great majority present their argument in more or less temperate terms. Most of them take issue with my point of view, which is how it should be. Many support their case with helpful and relevant information. So far, so civilised - the correct use of a blog. A minority express their opposition by way of abuse, very personal remarks and hysterical ranting, but I've had it far easier than many of my colleagues. I seriously considered suing one commenter for libel; I would have won, and English law, for purposes of libel litigation, allows the real identity behind an online pseudonym to be discovered.

It is that anonymity that's at the hub of a debate and vote that takes place in the European Parliament tomorrow. An Estonian MEP, Marianne Mikko, is worried that a growing number of blogs are written with "malicious intentions or hidden agendas". She proposes that bloggers identify themselves and declare any interests they have in the issue they're writing about. Her concerns should be taken seriously. We, the readers of blogs, do not, and normally cannot, know who lurks behind the funny nickname. We need more information about the writers so that we can decide how seriously to take their opinions. Has she a personal stake in whatever it is under discussion? Does he belong to a dodgy or extreme campaigning body? Is she the sister of the owner of the restaurant she's recommending? Does he bear a personal grudge? We don't know.

Coincidentally, last week, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web, confessed to his own worries about the way his invention was being used to dispense disinformation, conspiracy theories (that 9/11 was the work of the US government, for example) and harmful ideas. He particularly mentioned the spreading of the rumours that the MMR vaccine risked leading to autism in children. Also, he said, "the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly finds a formula which is very believable ... which you can imagine spreading to thousands of people and being deeply damaging." His solution - systems that would give a website a label of trustworthiness once it had proved the reliability of its sources - was less convincing.

For the moment, the advantages of allowing virtually unrestricted access to the net outweigh the undoubted negatives mentioned by Mikko and Berners-Lee. But what's also clear is that more and more participants are abusing that freedom, whether as bloggers or on websites. We may soon have to consider devising controls on entry, though what form they'll take is not easy to envisage. It is possible that we will find out, in five or 10 or 20 years, that, in the internet, we have created a monster we cannot tame, whose capacity for doing harm exceeds any good it once brought.

Listening to the BBC World Service news bulletin the other night I was told that a sheet of music written by "the composer Mozart" had been discovered in a library in France. This upset me for a quite a while. Did they really need to tell listeners that Mozart was a composer? (The serious press here and the BBC home channels didn't.) Would there be anyone so ignorant of Mozart's calling as to require an explanation? I gave the World Service the benefit of the doubt. After all, a large proportion of its listenership comes from countries not steeped in the European classical music tradition. Still, its listeners are intelligent and knowledgeable - they have chosen to tune in to one of the highest-quality stations in the world - and I would have thought that, for them, the greatest of the great, whether in history or still living, and in whatever field of endeavour they exhibited their supremacy, would require no descriptive noun.

There are not all that many in that category: Mozart and Beethoven, Mandela, Einstein, Muhammad Ali, Shakespeare, perhaps a few more. It may be that the World Service has noticed a trend, veering towards greater ignorance, and is right to label even Mozart. Such a trend may be universal. I'm depressingly conscious that, as surveys continue to show, British youth's knowledge of important historical events and characters is abysmal; if they have so little idea who Winston Churchill was, can we expect them to know Mozart? And why should the youth of other countries fare better? Perhaps, quite soon, references in the serious media to all the great figures will have to be explained.

At least the World Service didn't describe him as the "famous composer Mozart". When I worked for the Times some years ago, it was forbidden to describe someone as the "famous" (or "celebrated" or "well-known") writer, composer or whatever. If they are genuinely famous, there is no need for the adjective; if they're not, the adjective is a lie. I remember too that, until quite recently, you could tell from the wording of a London Evening Standard billboard whether or not someone who had just died was truly well-known. If it proclaimed "Famous actor dies" you knew you probably hadn't heard of the deceased. A really famous person would have his or her name in the huge letters of the billboard: "Lord Olivier dies". The adjective "famous" would have been regarded as patronising.

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* Marcel Berlins
* The Guardian,
* Wednesday September 24 2008

Big is not necessarily better
Courtesy: Marcel Berlins, The Guardian, September 2008

It is not often that prison officers are in total agreement with the probation, prison reform and civil liberties lobbies about the best way of dealing with criminals. But there they were, among the 34 signatories to last week's passionate letter to the Guardian, which included just about every organisation with expertise of the prison system. They agreed on one important issue. The government's plan to build three large "Titan" prisons - each catering for some 2,500 prisoners - will just not work.

Jack Straw's hasty decision to proceed with the Titans followed the recommendation of Lord Carter, whose inquiry into the future of the prison system was widely criticised for being superficial, and based on insufficient evidence. The virtually unanimous condemnation of the plan comes in two parts. There is no need for more prison places, because already too many convicted criminals are being sent to prison - a proposition that has been put to the government again and again and has the support of almost every knowledgeable organisation. There is no dispute that long terms of imprisonment are justified for violent and sexual offenders, but prisons are full of inmates who are neither, who have not committed the worst kind of crimes, and who are often suffering from mental conditions that prison exacerbates.

But even if the government's argument is accepted that more prisons may be required, Titans are emphatically not the answer. Large is inefficient and potentially dangerous, experience in other countries shows. If new prisons are to be built, they should be relatively small and localised.

Coincidentally, last week also saw publication of a report by Professor Rod Morgan, former chairman of the Youth Justice Board and one of the country's most respected criminologists, pointing to the twin drawbacks of the dramatic increase in the use of police cautions as an alternative to sending low-level offenders to be tried in the courts. The policy was well meant, aimed at dealing with petty criminals as quickly and cheaply as possible. But the police have been criticised for using the caution on the wrong people and unnecessarily, to enable them more easily to meet their targets for apprehending criminals.

Morgan points to two consequences of the overuse of cautions. First, they are too often being dished out to deal with not just small-time crime and criminals, but more serious offences, including assaults and other violent and thuggish behaviour, which deserve to end up in court. Secondly, minor offenders, especially youths, are being given police cautions, which criminalises them, when their behaviour should have been dealt with informally.

So, at one end of the sentencing and punishment spectrum, we're imprisoning too many offenders who ought not to be there and should be handled by non-custodial methods. At the other end, we're issuing cautions to people who ought to be treated more severely in the courts and to others who ought not to be brought into the criminal justice system at all. What a mess.

Bryant didn't ask legal advice about job, official says - Philadelphia Inquirer

During an interview for his job at the School of Osteopathic Medicine, former State Sen. Wayne Bryant promised to vet his employment with the nonpartisan agency that gives legal advice to lawmakers, according to John Crosbie, the man who interviewed ...

Asphalt plant leads council to seek legal advice - Newport News-Times

Road & Driveway Companyâ€™s asphalt production plant, located at the corner of Harney Street and Highway 20 in Newport, could relocate to Toledo if owner Bob Wienert successfully navigates through the permitting process. Wienert has filed legal ...

Former Iowa official Mills defends role - Chicago Tribune

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Former University of Iowa General Counsel Marc Mills says he didn't supervise a much maligned sexual assault investigation involving two former University of Iowa football players. According to documents released by the University ...

Board will seek legal advice - Cordele Dispatch

ABBEVILLE â€” After discussing possible changes to a proposed Wilcox County Land Use Plan for about an hour Tuesday, Commissioners here decided to seek advise from their attorney. County leaders including Commission Chairman Lee Hollingsworth ...

Equity release? Only as a last resort, says Which? - Guardian Unlimited

Pensioners struggling to make ends meet should only release value from their home as "a last resort", according to the consumer group Which? As living costs rise, equity release schemes - which typically let you borrow money against the value of your ...

Saddlers look into fans' mailshot - BBC Sport

Walsall are taking legal advice after complaints from their supporters that they had received a commercial e-mail reputedly from Birmingham City.

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QUESTION:

Distinguish between and "offer" and an "invitation to treat".

ANSWER:

The first requisite of any contract is an agreement (consisting of an offer and acceptance). At least two parties are required; one of them, the offeror, makes an offer which the other, the offeree, accepts.

An offer therefore is an expression of willingness or a communication of a proposal which shows an intention that the maker shall become legally bound.

An offer is very specific, qualified and certain.

Such an offer is different from what is known as an "invitation to treat", in contrast it is merely a communication where a party is merely inviting offers, which he is then free to accept or reject.

There are many instances where invitations to treat are misconstrued as offers, perfectly illustrated in this case:

Partridge v Crittenden
In this case the defendant advertised in a newspaper `Framble finch cocks and hens 25 shillings each''. Offering a wild bird for sale is contrary to the Protection of Birds Act. It was construed that this advertisement was an invitation to treat, not an offer in contractual terms, and he was acquitted.

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QUESTION:

The importance of the High Trees Case is this: during the 19^th Century the Courts of Common Law had laid down strict rules of law expressed in archaic terms such as Consideration and Estoppel.

The High Trees case helped to narrow that gap. Ever since the decision was given it has been the subject of controversy per Lord Denning’s ‘The Discipline of Law’ (P197).

Critically examined this statement?

ANSWER:

The basis of Common Law is set by PRECEDENT, tweaked if necessary by statute but on the whole is based upon the setting precedent of a previous case.

Consideration is considered to be an ACT done in exchange for an element within a contract such as a promise; this is done to validate the existence of the promise.

Consideration, as in the question has been set by precedents now over 400 years old and notably considered to be archaic. Yet these very old principals are still upheld in cases today. Whilst the precedent is archaic the fundamental principle is still current. If we take a look at the main definitions of Consideration and the cases that illustrate their principle we can confirm that Common Law and their precedents are archaic but still used in adjudication today. If this area of law remains enforceable then only the precedent remains archaic.

QUOTE: “The law of contract is based upon the law merchant which established the principle that the reasonable expectations of businessmen will be upheld. So the court’s approach to contract law appears to reflect business requirements.” This quote would appear to confirm that the basis of contract law is archaic as almost ancient principles are still quoted in modern texts.

Perhaps with the passage of time it would seem prudent to tweak the older style of contract law; but the foundations are so deep, the complexities of modernisation would be immense.

As we look at the basic principles of Consideration and Estoppel, we can note that archaic precedents still stand firm in our modern courts.

Definition of consideration;

The rule that consideration must move from the promisee;

Tweddle v Atkinson (1861)

In this particular case a third party to the contract tried to sue. It was held that Tweddle Junior (the 3^rd party) wasn’t a party to the contract.

However, we see that under a new statute ‘Contracts (Rights of a 3^rd Party) Act 1999’ we see that the very archaic nature of Tweddle v Atkinson, although illustrating the nature of consideration, has been updated to allow a 3^rd party to sue.