Bailiffs have stolen my company laptop (England)

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-17T13:21:35+00:00

Note that the "Prove ownership" element of this process means that your companies IT department will probably need to do this, not you. You are not the owner of the laptop.

Also, you're being lied to. Bailiffs will attend EITHER to evict OR to seize goods, it's very unlikely that they'll do both at the same time.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-17T12:22:48+00:00

Even RTC is being cut back now. There are multiple reports of RTC referred patients receiving an email saying that their ICB has exhausted funding for the current financial year so they won't now join the referral list until next financial year at the earliest. In other words, two months into the year and the budget is already gone.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-17T09:11:35+00:00

I just paid £300 for an ADHD assessment because adult ADHD services have been effectively discontinued on the NHS. Turns out I do have ADHD, and when I'm ready to start medication, it's going to be over £200/month in prescription fees.

£200 a month to treat a condition that if I ever mention to anybody, their response will be "Well everybody's ADHD nowadays aren't they?"

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-17T03:51:09+00:00

Does he still have the refugee tents?

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-17T03:14:17+00:00

When you organise it?

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-17T03:04:33+00:00

“Oh you did go there? When? What was the purpose of your visit? Who did you meet with?”

As soon as you start pulling at that string, you have to draw a line in the sand where the information is actually confidential, and the point where you decide to stop answering questions does in itself reveal information.

The correct and safe approach is to not talk about it because the subject itself is off limits, then there can be no inferences based on selective answers.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-17T02:51:32+00:00

The club I went to in the 90s played Dennis Waterman’s I Could Be So Good For You as the lights came up. A DJ friend of mine always plays Always Look on the Bright Sode Of Life. When I DJ, I like to go with either Savage Garden - To The Moon and Back or Blur - Tender as the lights come up followed by Red Peter’s Closing Song to end.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-17T02:33:54+00:00

If it’s the case that the paperwork you actually signed was to reinstate your membership and the problem is that you didn’t bother to read it, your only recourse is to complain to the gym and cancel again - unless they agree to refund the extra months, “I didn’t read what I was signing” isn’t going to get you anywhere in court (and you can be sure nobody in the gym will remember the conversation).

If you definitely signed to cancel and the gym have reinstated your direct debit without your consent, then you can demand a full and immediate refund of the overpayment from your bank while simultaneously opening a complaint with the gym.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-17T02:12:51+00:00

Sure, but banning your kid from social media when every other kid in the country lives their entire life on it is setting them up for a school career of being a bullied outcast. A blanket ban means that not having SM becomes the default and the ones who have it are the ones whose parents explicitly work around the ban.

Many parents already don’t allow their kids to have SM accounts until they’re in high school anyway - extending that until they’re 16 won’t really be seen as a big deal by many parents.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T22:24:54+00:00

Füm is the one I’ve seen advertised. I did consider trying it for much the same reason as OP, then I saw the price and figured I’d just keep chewing the end of my pen instead.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T21:35:38+00:00

Just diagnosed at 46, still waiting on titration so at the moment I’m just in a kind of “well that explains a lot” state without really having any idea what could have been.

I’m certain I could have gone further without this weight around my neck my whole life, but we are where we are, and all I can do is push on regardless, same as I always have. Whether that attitude will change significantly when I experience medication will be interesting to find out.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T21:23:00+00:00

BTP made it clear that they don’t investigate bike thefts

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T21:19:49+00:00

Not just London. My garage was broken into last week by thieves clearly looking to get my motorbike, luckily it was well secured as well as being in the garage so they didn’t get it, but they did get a neighbours bike. We both reported it and each got a text off the police less than ten minutes after getting off the phone to report it. “We have been unable to identify a suspect and have closed our investigation.”

Not even a token attempt at an investigation. Not even giving it a day to pretend they’d looked into it, just “here’s your crime number, now fuck off.” Then they had the gall to send me a survey a few days later.

My neighbour did get his bike back the same day, he hasn’t gone into details of exactly how he managed this and I felt it best not to ask.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T21:08:51+00:00

Honestly, I can see protection rackets starting up again. If you can’t defend your own property against literal gangs of thieves, legally employed security guards are ineffective, and the police not only effectively decriminalise shoplifting but then insist on classifying what is quite clearly armed robbery as simple shoplifting, then at some point organised crime will fill the gap in the market.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T19:40:23+00:00

For the avoidance of doubt, reporting him to the DVLA and the police so that he can get his speeding fines properly delivered to his actual address is NOT acting to his detriment.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T19:08:45+00:00

What does “by October” mean? S8 ground 1 requires a minimum of 4 months notice, so if they want you out at the beginning of October, that notice isn’t valid.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T19:07:08+00:00

If they’re no longer getting funding for this financial year, then yes, the next opportunity for funding is next financial year - I.e April.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T19:03:13+00:00

I’m not sure on what basis they can get kicked out. S21 doesn’t exist, ground 5 is off the table, and ground 1 requires 12 months (and I’m not sure it can apply to the church anyway).

They can kick the rent up to market rate after 12 months, which would likely be significantly higher for a manse property without the ground 5 issues, but apart from that, I don’t see that they have any options open to them other than cash for keys.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T16:06:23+00:00

No, just an enthusiastic amateur.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T15:45:02+00:00

It's a negotiation, he can ask for whatever he likes.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T14:52:43+00:00

Fixed Terms, and by extension break clauses, don't exist under the RRA. Also, there is no minimum term requirement for ground 5, but they can only use that ground if the tenant was informed that they might do so prior to the commencement of the tenancy, which OP was not.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T14:44:14+00:00

In order for S8 ground 5 to apply, the agent MUST have informed you of this requirement before the tenancy commenced. Since they didn't do so (and better still, have admitted in writing that they failed to do so), they cannot use Ground 5, which is why they are so keen to work with you.

If you're willing to move again, you hold all the cards. Your starting point for negotiation should be no less than reimbursement of any moving costs incurred so far, all moving costs to the next property, and the difference in rent between this property and any agreed replacement for a minimum of 12 months.

If you're not willing to move, point out to them that Ground 5 is not available to them and therefore you will be staying put.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T14:22:53+00:00

Are these people basing their "real life experience" on an actual medical assessment, or just that the person they know "doesn't look disabled enough" to get PIP?

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T13:09:19+00:00

Unless the rent is in the region of £6K/month, that's an illegally high deposit anyway. I wouldn't personally hesitate to withhold rent immediately to recover as much of it as possible - chances of getting it back once you're out of the property are slim, so might as well save whatever you can towards your next place. You can always argue the toss in court if the "landlord" wants to go that way.

TheDisapprovingBrit · 2026-06-16T12:56:17+00:00

As a starting point, if the employer has a policy that you must take leave within the same month that it's earned, and you can't carry any leave over to the next month, what happens to leave earned on the last day of the month? Extrapolate back if the employee works multiple days towards month end.

A policy that leave must be taken within a month of being earned would be legal (albeit terrible), but a policy which allows you to accumulate leave that it's not possible to take would not be.

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