England. Teacher at a primary school is asking children (7-9yo) for massages with a few kids giving them. Also had at least one massage alone in a changing room. What can we do?

My ex wife and I divorced 7 years ago. I tried to get her to enter into a financial agreement but she refuses to communicate with me. We jointly own a property and I have had no benefit from that property since I left back in 2017. She point blank refuses to talk to me. In 2020 I received repossession paperwork as it turns out she hadn't been paying management fees/ ground rent. At no point had she informed me that it wasn't being paid. Shortly after this I received court documents telling me that my ex was taking me to court for a financial settlement. The judge ruled that the property should be put on the market immediately. It took her 5 months and despite having several offers she is still holding up in the property. She agreed to the last offer but kept the buyers waiting for 8 months, so they backed out. The judge ruled that she was exclusively liable for the management fees. Now the management company are taking us to court as the sale has been rumbling on for nearly 3 years. I have no money for solicitors..how do I proceed? Thanks in advance.

Today at work HR sent an email with my details. Including my wages, sick days and holiday days out to the entire company. Ive been working here for 4 years. And 2 weeks ago I've handed my notice in. I had my exit interview on Monday. But out of the blue I hear people laughing and whispering. I'm constantly on the phone so I didnt think to check my emails but HR came to me and said they were really sorry.

I was shocked and confused as I had no idea. Turns out everyone saw this email before it was recalled. I do not have the email. I didnt see this email before it was recalled but a few teams messages from colleagues have suggest its my wages, holiday days and absence days.

I'm just really shocked by it all and quite upset as all I got was an apology and I had to carry on working. No meeting to discuss this. No manager spoke to me. Nothing. I dont know what else was on that email but I'm wondering if there's anything I can do as this is a breach of gdpr.

Hi All,

Not sure if a legal query or not necessarily. My wife is currently on Maternity Leave, after having our 2nd child in March. She is due to go back on a part time basis from January, and full time from March.

Her employer (and I am very grateful for this) agreed to continue paying her full pay for the entire duration of her maternity leave, and it was pre-agreed for her to return in January part time, and full time from March.

There have been issues in the employer while she has been on maternity, she has family who work there and there have been multiple members of staff leaving, changes to hierarchy etc.

She asked the employer to meet to ask about what hours they wanted her to do when she returned in January. She was due to go in today, and had a call about 5 minutes before she was due to go in saying the managing director was leaving for the day and didn't have time to meet with her.

She then received a call about 10 minutes later, from the office manager (her relative), where she asked her if she would do some work for the company as there was a project that needed submitting by the 6th of November and they needed help. Before she had chance to say no, she was put on the phone to a director who started asking her questions and telling her what needed doing with the project. They effectively gave her no chance to talk or say no.

She then had to go in to the office to collect her laptop to work, and tried to tell them that she doesn't get much free time at the moment due to looking after a 7 month old, and any free time she gets is minimal as he sleeps terribly, but they almost ignored this and just kept reiterating the deadline.

It is a very tricky situation, on one hand she feels obligated to work as they are paying her, but at the same time she is still on her maternity leave and she is very upset at having to spend her free time working. Does anyone have any advice in this situation? Could she use this as leverage to not go back in January/have some extra time off? Is there a legal aspect to it?

Thanks in advance.

I recently put a small claims case against a company which didn’t pay my companies invoice. This is a medium size company and we are a very small company. They paid the invoice the day after the claim was submitted. They believed they didn’t need to pay me as the work was cancelled, by them.

When I was communicating with them they were using scare tactics like your a small company and you have not legal department your case won’t hold up, small companies like you are fraudulent etc.

In the court paperwork before paying us, they have admitted part claim, paid the invoice in full but not the court fees which I will be chasing. Here they have also wrote we are a fraudulent company.

They have also left a review on our company profile saying we are fraudulent, which I’ve since been able to have deleted.

Can I do anything about this? I find this behaviour disgusting as they are trying to intimidate and bully a small company.

At the beginning of the month my family stayed for the weekend at a Premier Inn. One of the nights we had dinner in their restaurant. When we went to pay they said that it didn't go through. They had my husband try three times. Then they got a different machine and when they inputted the total in the new machine it was 80p less than the other machine (this may be important later).

Later on when I looked in the banking app I noticed that all four of the charges went through. My husband went down and asked them about it and they said the extra charges would be refunded. We went home and I waited a week and no refund came.

My husband has now been talking to them and they are saying that they have no record of multiple charges from our card and won't issue a refund.

I'm also worried about the fact that one of the chargers was 80p less, that even if we do get a refund we won't get a refund for that one because they will say it's a separate thing since it's a different amount.

This has now been going on for over two weeks and we are out almost £150 in the extra charges which we can't really spare.

All of the issues I’ve had with the property (I’ve lived here for 19 months):

- Although it isn’t confirmed, I’m 99% sure my security deposit was not put into a safe third party scheme after I bank transferred it to my landlord. (How do I confirm this outside of asking directly? I didn’t receive an email confirmation or anything. I have asked them and they are avoiding the question)

- Basic maintenance duties were not provided: My front door’s lock was broke (the front doorhandle could be pulled out of the door) and the only security I had was the top snib to keep it closed for the majority of my tenancy until I had to re-ask/demand for it to get fixed a month ago, after a break-in attempt. Any time I have asked for maintenance (which is only twice, due to how uncomfortable the interaction is) my landlord’s sister (who maintains the property as my landlord doesn’t live in the country) tells me that she wouldn’t know who to contact and she wouldn’t have had anyone to do the maintenance duties if her family friend wasn’t available (i.e, all maintenance duties are done by their family friends who are also labourers(?), despite the fact that my rent money should go toward paying for maintenance)

Because they’ve treated the initial maintenance requests this way, it’s caused me to then not report further ones as they’ve made me feel like I’m inconveniencing them (I will be sending a small list reporting the sort of stuff that’s in the flat that needs repaired)

- I was paying £600 for a 1 bedroom flat in a town 30mins outside of glasgow, with no central heating and the above issues (this feels like a pricey rent for what is overall provided). The final issue that has caused me to source moving out, is that my landlord’s sister messaged me on whatsapp with the following message in September:

“Hi good morning. How are you ? I hope you are well. I would like to talk about rent actually. We supposed to make increase on march 2026 but did not do it 😊. As a land lord we have been paying insurance and etc . by paying %100 increase. My sister told me to notice you we have to put monthly rent up. New rent will be £700 per month.. we would appreciate if you start paying next month. Thank you very much 🙏🏻”

So I was expected to start paying a £100 increase in a matter of weeks (not giving me a 3month rent increase notice) for a property that is already quite pricey for the quality, and not regularly maintained.

- all correspondence has been on whatsapp, in similar broken english as the above.

So: The landlord siblings seem to be really lovely people when I’ve met/spoke to them and i believe this is their first time managing a property, but their practice as a landlord has been super dubious and I’d be concerned if the next tenant was a first-time student tenant (like myself) who didn’t recognise these red flags until too late. In hindsight I was sitting in this property during winter absolutely freezing, with all these issues, but paying £600 (and then expected to pay £100 more out of the blue)

I’ve spoke to citizens advice solely about the security deposit issue, who tells me that if I do the paperwork for tribunal, i could get at the most 3months worth of rent back as compensation. Some sort of compensation for the amount of stress this property’s caused me would be ideal, and I also would want to do this to try make sure their practice in the future is more ethical/legal for the next tenant.

But I’m wondering how feasible it will be for me to achieve this, is it worth the time, is there anything listed in the above outside of the security deposit issue that could also be used for the tribunal case?

How lengthy would tribunal be, what would be expected of me/what would i need, etc? Thanks in advance!

Yesterday I was refused access to the disabled bathroom in the services, I got about my business the best I could without it. Today, I was again refused by the same person "You are not disabled" I was told once more, I went to WH Smiths and got a key, the person who twice refused watched me enter, a couple of minutes go by and that same person unlocks and opens the door to see inside. I'm livid. I only temporarily require access to these facilities, I'm not permanently disabled, I have no blue badge. Can I do something about what has happened here besides complaining? Is this harassment?

Bit of a random one but me and my colleagues are seriously considering having our employer looked in to. It’s just that we don’t know where to go.

Basically- he’s a very dodgy man. Accounts are always getting cancelled, cards are being rejected, payments are late and never in full (our salaries), he mishandled our tax payments and pensions.

We have spoken to HMRC and ACAS on separate occasions about these issues but they were actually pretty unhelpful. They suggested just talking to him about it (we have no HR) or any opportunity to investigate would mean him knowing we’ve reported him (there’s only 3 of us).

What we’d love to do is to have some anonymous investigation into him, his accounts and his handling of the business.

Is there actually a way to do this?

Location: United Kingdom

Hello

​So me and the mother of my child are on a court order which was finalised in may this year. Im court ordered to do 100% of travel, 200 miles per fortnight.(me and the mother live approx 50 miles apart and has always been like that since our child was born) with the mother to help out with some travel if at times i need to double up my journeys. ( by either family/partner or travel by train)

At the time the order was made, I drove and had a car and the mother didnt drive or have a car. So i was okay with doing majority of the travel based on the current circumstances. HOWEVER, the mother actually passed her driving test before the order was made and now has a car, but she kept that quiet at court in my opinion to avoid doing any travelling.

Ive tried to be civil with the mother and even said im still happy doing most of the travelling but can she just help out even once per month either by meeting half way, or I collect her on my time and she collect her on her time. Each time she either just refuses or comes up with excuses everytime.

I understand the court will look at what is best for my child.

My question is, given the change of circumstances, can or should i apply back to court to ask for a variation in travel arrangements and if so, what would be my best approach? Thanks

I’m looking for advice on whether PrettyLittleThing’s actions are legal under UK consumer law.

On 8 July 2026, I purchased two dresses from PrettyLittleThing. I returned both dresses on 23 July 2026. THE RETURN WAS WITHIN PLT’S RETURN WINDOW. However, I only received a refund for one of them. I am still owed £20 for the second dress.

I contacted PLT to request the remaining refund on 14 October. However they told me they cannot investigate because more than a month has passed since I returned the dress and there is nothing further they can do.

I find this incredibly frustrating because I returned both items within the return window, and the fact that more than a month has passed shouldn’t mean I lose my right to a refund.

My questions are:

1. Is PLT legally entitled to refuse to investigate or refund me simply because more than a month has passed since I returned the item? Am I still entitled to the £20 refund?
2. Has anyone experienced something similar with PLT, and were you able to get your money back?

I appreciate that it is only £20, but I don’t think a retailer should be able to withhold a refund for a returned item simply because of an arbitrary deadline.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hello All! 29 years ago I foolishly got married . I was young and silly. The marriage only lasted 3 months after she decided to go off with her best friends brother. She went on to have 2 children with him and I moved 300 miles away from where we lived, so I have no idea where she is, or have contact with anyone who would.

So for 29 years I paid her very little thought, after all she chose her ,life but heres my quandary. I have just been left my fathers house. So I need to know if I make a will myself leaving my assets to say, XYZ, would that cover myself should anything happen to me , meaning she would have no claim?

I have spoken with Quickie Divorce who for £499 can get me the divorce, but they also told me I would then have to get a 'clean order' (I think that's what they said) and that would then stop any her.

Now this is all hyperphetical. After being seperated for 29 years she might be dead herself, or if I was to die, she might never know if I had. Also, I'm guessing if she did she would have to raise some money to contest my will?

Basically I would like to know what action I should take to protect any assest's after I'm gone.

Thanks in advance!

last week I won £10,000 from Gala spins when I tried to withdraw the money they stopped the payment sent me £950 and blocked the account!! after contacting me they told me they were looking into it because of making the payment from my partner’s card I was breaking the rules even though I won roughly 2 thousand the week before which they paid me! and 522 transactions to and from the same card I tried to withdraw from over the past year.

i have to now wait till the 3 weeks for a final decision

what are your thoughts do you think they will or should pay?

Is this worth pursuing - I’ve been looking for legal advice reg potential TOLATA claim involving a property I jointly own with my ex-partner. The property is currently being sold, enquires have just been raised so things are progressing & I’m concerned about how equity will be divided after.

It is jointly owned but I've paid significantly more over the years including paying the full deposit when we bought the house in 2008. I have paid the mortgage on my own since around 2016 when my ex moved out as well as covering all of the household bills, maintenance and repairs. My ex partner contributed very little even when living there and was mostly unemployed.

I paid for legal consultation a year ago and was just told to gather evidence. I have managed to get some evidence of my contributions, although getting older bank records has proved difficult. My ex destroyed a lot of paperwork during the breakdown of our relationship and obviously a lot of this stuff dates back nearly 20 yrs now. There was also financial, verbal and emotional 'control' so I was cut out of a lot of our joint bank account stuff and I was working to keep everything together while he spent all of my money.

I've tried to go to solicitors but the house move is bleeding me dry - my current solicitors are dealing with the sale so it is a conflict of interest for them to support my independently now. I'm a single mum and my ex pays 30 per month for child support and nothing else, he doesnt see his daughter at all as he was bad to her and she is too scared of him. Solicitors are asking for 600 just to speak to me at an initial meeting. I'm completely out of money at this point. Would I just be paying 600 to be told to gather more evidence again?!

Is this worth pursuing, what options do I have? I would be so grateful for any thoughts or advice, I'm feeling so lost in it all.

I took my 2011 Audi a3 (worth about £2200) in for a recall 3 weeks ago, the next day the engine management light came on, the glow plug light came on flashing and the car now has a massive loss of power. I took the car back to the garage and they quoted me £2400 to fix it. They didn’t deny that it is broken because of the recall but said that because the recall was released 9 years ago any damage from the recall is not under the recall’s warranty. I have escalated it through Audi customer service but don’t seem to be getting anywhere and have been without my car for three weeks now. Is there anything I can do, any way of going through insurance or an escalating to a difference team in Audi?

TLDR my boss has ignored all requests for change/ improvement is this constructive dismissal?

I have recently handed in my notice and have three months to serve. My role is based in financial services in London so subject to laws of England and Wales.

It was suggested to me that what had happened might be constructive dismissal or similar. So I am wondering if I should seek full paid for legal advice.

I have been employed for 10 years plus and mostly under the same boss.

In that time I did progress my job title and pay. I also became specialised in a non core activity outside of the normal scope of my team.

During the time working with my boss, they have:

• pressured me to drop request for help with dyslexia as it would count against teams profitability (team bears the cost rather than a central cost).
• ignored requests from the whole team for more resources as we were working significantly longer hours than other teams due to low staff numbers.
• both their children and partner made fun of me on voice and video calls.
• ignored a direct request for more support due to overwork and resultant mental health issues.
• ignored repeated requests over three years to allow me to do a mixture of the teams core work and the non activity
• gave opportunities for project and travel to favourites.
• agreed to hire a junior to work alongside me then chose to use the approved headcount to offer the job to another candidate who did not want to do the non core role.

I was always a hard working and the non core activity earned the team a steady and valuable income. I feel it was easier for my manager to keep me delivering this income than to share the activity with others.

Thanks for any advice or thoughts you might have.

In England,

Ex was sexually, physicallly and financially abusive. We seperared, we do split custody. I have concerns they are driving with child intoxicated. I am considering not letting child stay overnights. We're both on the birth certificate but I am main caregiver.

They have also, recently, used child to manipulate me/cross boundaries(imem turn up annunnounced). We have no formal thing in place, going through mediation. I am unsure if mediation will work.

Is it illegal for me to simply say ex can't have child overnight for a little while?

What do I do now? I've had a speeding and traffic offence in the past and paid up instantly then taken the course. I cannot afford a fine and am not aware of any other letters relating to this.

England. Thinking of engaging a solicitor for conveyancing and they're stating I have to pay £xxx for disbursements before they'll issue the formal quote, terms of business, etc. I asked for a pdf of the terms, but was told that because they have to open an online account which then generates the terms and handles ID verification, I have to pay for it. uo Is this usual / normal?

EDIT: to be clear, I have an informal quote which was a breakdown of a list of costs, but when asking for terms was told I'd have to pay a $xxx deposit for them as a disbursement cost of opening an account and work.

I have lived in a lovely village in Kent, England my entire life pretty much (moved here when I was 4 years old and still live here into my early 20s) and a few years ago (7/8 years ago) they built a new estate nearby. It’s a private building company, not housing association or council housing. They also promised that the village would have access to the little park they would build on the estate as a sweetener. I understand and completely agree that the actual road is a private road for residents to park only. I have absolutely no problem with that. however. there is a footpath that goes around the estate (road with offshoots onto little cul de sacs) and as soon as it was built I started walking my dog around there (she’s well behaved, always on lead, never barks and i always pick up after her.) After a couple of months as I was walking my dog I noticed a couple of little green signs on the openings from the little gravel footpath to the cul de sacs saying the words ‘residents only’ and nothing else. It cannot be parking as you could not get a car onto the gravel paths, they are tiny. They mean no walking onto the pathways in the cul de sac: this is not an official looking sign. no council logo. Not attached to the road name sign. just a cheap Amazon prime looking sign that literally just said those two words.

I have simply continued to walk the dogs I’ve had over the years and walked onto the pathways in the cul de sacs if need be as I don't think this is enforceable and I’ve never had an issue. My current dog is a rescue and she’s so well behaved, again; always on lead, always quiet, loves other dogs, and I always pick up after her. Im pretty sure the local mp told my Nan that it wasn’t enforceable and most likely a resident with too much time on their hands. But my Nan does get confused sometimes lol.

so. Redditera of the UK, is this enforacble? Or is this a karen with too much free time?

UPDATE:

I have checked the website of my local borough council and the signs are not legal. It explicitly states:  ‘ local villagers and walkers who do not live on the estate are legally permitted to use those paths.’ 

It said this is legally in place under an act that preserves local nature and aids in ecological management. 

I have looked into these laws with the council and they say I should report the signs this resident put up as it’s not lawful. Apparently it’s a ‘breach of planning law’ and violates the ecological management plan.

Thank you all so much for your advice!   :)

So myself and my wife separated a few months ago. We live in England. We have a four year old son together. I currently pay £1000 into a joint account, most of this covers half the mortgage and half of the nursery fees. There is £250 left which pays for half the household bills (energy, broadband, insurance, water etc). We are in the process of getting our son used to 50/50 care but want to do this gradually to help him grow used to it. Until that point my wife has used to CMS calculator to work out I owe her £450 a month. I have agreed but suggested I will start paying an extra £200 a month into her account as I'm already paying £250 for household bills. She believes I should be continue paying this but give her £450 on top of that. I disagree and don't see why I'm paying for her household bills when I no longer live there... Any guidance? TIA

As it says. I have been at my company nearly 10 years (permanent office job), and this week went on sick leave for a septoplasty operation on monday. I had been signed off for 2 weeks sick leave well in advance of this.

The morning after my operation, less than 24 hours after I had been under general anaesthetic- i was woken by a call from the head of my department. I missed the call, but she immediately whatsapped me asking if i could join a call that day about our team- or schedule another. My HoD was well aware I had just had surgery, and she briefly referenced it in the text.

I replied saying I was very worried by news of such a meeting but could we have the call on friday since I was still very rough and had hoped for 2 weeks not thinking about work to recover.

Now i am furious at how this has been handled- having googled it seems she might have crossed a line, calling me directly less than 24 hours after I was under GA. It has hugely upset me and put me through a great deal of stress when i should have been resting.

I have contacted my union but i would like to know if a line was crossed/what should I do?

I recently had a survey done. None of the measurements were marked and some were clearly wrong which severely undermined the purpose and utility of the survey. In hindsight he was much cheaper than other quotes so maybe that was a red flag.

I requested some additional clarifications but the surveyor refused to make any changes, suggesting I simply don’t understand the report. I then replied outlining the issues in full to formally state my dissatisfaction and requested either the changes to be made or a partial refund.

The surveyor then accused me of making baseless allegations about the quality of his work and then has asked for details of my financial situation, mortgage statements etc, to determine if legal action against me would be worthwhile. At no point has he mentioned on what basis (perhaps my “allegations”?) and at this point I’m worried about responding and triggering it.

Mote that at no point has anything like a review or communication with others about my view on the quality of his work taken place.

I’m now concerned about two things:

1. If I request access to his ADR process - which I believe he has to provide as a RICS member - and that annoys him, could I be exposed to legal action?

2. If I go directly to RICs to raise a complaint, could that expose me legally too? I.e. some kind of defamation.

3. if he does sue me how can I protect myself and would it be expensive?

I’ll be candid here, his response to me scared me, and the only thing I did was lay out my complaints and requested either a refund or amendment to his report.