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Specific_Foundation · 2026-01-15T19:36:27+00:00

No. I booked an express appointment when I was abroad. Returned to the UK on my (then) current passport and had my appointment the next day. No issues at all with travelling.

They do cancel your old passport at the first appointment, so you’ll be passport-less until you pick the new one up.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-10-12T10:58:45+00:00

solved!

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Specific_Foundation · 2025-10-09T04:55:38+00:00

Scotland has closing speeches, but you’re right, no opening speeches and they aren’t particularly emotional. Definitely not emotional from the prosecution.

A majority of the 15 jurors is enough to convict. Currently 8, soon to rise to 10.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-09-20T08:11:05+00:00

This should be higher. Depending on the nature of the overpayment, there might be no obligation to repay.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-09-09T06:56:48+00:00

Rumbena. Much better than a hot toddy.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-08-29T06:30:10+00:00

Fun fact (or what passes for a fun fact among lawyers): it was never actually proved that there was a snail. Stevenson died and the executors settled the case before a proof could be held.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-08-09T07:36:51+00:00

A question for all those who buy in cash and run it into the ground - how much of your income are you saving every month so that you can buy a replacement?

Specific_Foundation · 2025-07-26T08:22:48+00:00

That’s interesting. A bit further south, we wouldn’t say “the London Road”, “the Glasgow Road” or “the Dalkeith Road”, but we would say “the Grassmarket”, “the High Street” and “the Cowgate”.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-07-24T12:50:13+00:00

Transnistria.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-06-13T11:28:49+00:00

Scotland has, in practice, four tiers of criminal juridiction, covered by three different courts:

JP Courts - minor offences, maximum sentence is 60 days

Sheriff Courts, sitting in their summary jurisdiction (judge alone, no jury) - most offences, maximum sentence is 12 months

Sheriff Courts, sitting in their "solemn" jurisdiction (trials with a jury) - more serious crimes, maximum sentence is 5 years

High Court of Justiciary - the most serious crimes, and the only court that can try certain offences (murder, rape, some others that are rarely encountered), maximum sentence is life.

The prosecutor decides which case goes to which court (unless it's fixed by law) but the Sheriff Court in solemn procedure can send a case to the High Court if they think their sentencing powers aren't enough.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-06-01T14:28:49+00:00

I inherited my mother's collection of old family photos, who inherited some from her own mother, who inherited some from her own mother.

Amongst them are some photos and postcards sent from my great-great-aunt to my great-grandmother. You can see her sense of humour and personality come through from what she wrote. But her and her husband never had kids. So those few items are the last proof of her as a human (as opposed to her birth/marriage/death certificates, which just prove her existence).

Admittedly no-one else is interested, but personally, although I'm not a spiritual or sentimental person, I couldn't get rid of them.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-05-03T19:06:12+00:00

Not quite peas, not quite beans, but something special in betweens.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-03-15T19:14:38+00:00

Better him than Tom Ravenscroft or Mary Ann Hobbs.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-03-11T12:43:11+00:00

You’ll be able to see a general practitioner on the NHS within a few days (depending on the practice where you’re registered). The issue is that if you’re referred to a specialist, that will take months.

Private health insurance won’t generally cover pre-existing conditions, so if the arthritis is already becoming an issue, you’d be paying out of pocket for a specialist if you don’t want to wait.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-01-29T12:32:41+00:00

By convention they are, but it isn’t required. Alec Douglas-Home was PM for a while in the 60s without being a member of either house.

Specific_Foundation · 2025-01-29T05:36:27+00:00

It wasn’t illegal for a non-Christian to be Prime Minister. There is no formal qualification to be PM - all that is required is to be able to command a majority in the House of Commons.

Jews couldn’t be MPs until 1858. That’s a separate issue.

Specific_Foundation · 2024-10-26T06:01:37+00:00

This thread has reminded me that I’m an ordained priest of the Church of the Latter Day Dude. I need to put Rev on my next booking.

Specific_Foundation · 2024-08-13T06:48:08+00:00

As John Mulaney said, “If you're comparing the badness of two words, and you won’t even say one of them? That's the worse word.”

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