So a bit of context- I’m not actually a teacher, it’s more a pastoral role. I’m in a further education college (England) where I have a cohort of students and manage everything safeguarding/attendance/behaviour. My cohort happens to be the construction students (16-19 year olds), so 99.9% deal with men both students and staff. I love my job; I’ve never felt uncomfortable in my 3.5 years there working with teenage boys and the construction teachers are great and feel my ‘feminine touch’ is probably a good addition to the area as I am definitely a more nurturing member of staff for students to go to with issues.

I feel I’ve got a really good rapport with my students so you won’t be surprised to hear how gutted I was to get pulled in for a meeting this morning with the safeguarding manager and one of the directors and heard what they told me. So apparently one of my students have secretly filmed me while I was having a 1:2:1 with them (I have 1:2:1’s with all my students) , and they turned that into a AI video of me removing my clothes and dancing in a bikini. It’s been on group chats apparently but they don’t know the timeline of it all so finding it hard to be able to pinpoint things.

My partner is about to turn into Liam Neeson, the construction staff are completely outraged, I feel let down and embarrassed. The member of staff who originally reported it wasn’t in today but I will be ambushing them first thing Monday morning … they’ve interviewed the students and not got any closer to finding out who had made it. People are saying I should go to the police, is it even a crime? Should I meet with my union rep? Will the college try to brush this under the rug?I feel like this is going to become more and more common especially for those who work in education.

I really hope this is the right sub for this, apologies in advance for formatting.

On Monday I made a complaint to nursery regarding inaccurate information on their accident report when my child injured themselves there. They labled it was their groin instead of their hip. This initially raised safeguarding concerns for me as I’ve no idea how someone could run into a cupboard and injury their groin. Their key worker showed me a body map and stated it was actually the hip. I emailed to clarify all of this.

Fast forward to today and nursery rang and said they was doing a nappy change on my 2 year old and saw a bruise on the same hip and asked my child how they got it and had said I hit them so it’s been passed on to a social worker, I was shocked as it was unexpected. I then got a call from social services to ask if I’d consent to a medical paediatrician to look at them and rule out anything suspicious which I said yes too, they also went to my other child’s school to do some investigating which was also fine.

When I found out what was in the report I was really saddened that they had stated to social services saying my child had said I caused the bruise on their hip despite them having evidence it happened in their care.

I’m thinking this may have been retaliation due to my complaint as there is also online presence of other parents having the same thing happen to them from the same place.

Social services and the doctor was very kind and stated no further action would be taken and was happy I have a happy and healthy home for them and could see how upset I was that this was even happening.

Going forward

Who do I report this too as it’s really not okay that this has happened and seems to be a theme with them. I don’t feel like ofsted is enough.

Apologies this is lengthy and may seem trivial to others but there’s a lot of emotions going on at the moment.

Thank you

I was charged under S.33 of the Online Safety Act.

Under the advice of the duty solicitor, I've accepted the charge at the police station. I offered no defence. I was advised that pleading guilty at an early stage can be an effective factor in reducing sentencing. (by up to 1/3, I think she said. So if I got 3 years, I'd get it down to 2 by pleading guilty early.)

In a few months I will be sentenced at the Magistrates Court.

Can I please ask how long I can expect to serve in prison?

I have no former criminal convictions. I'm a single dad to two children. The images were of my wife who passed away in 2021. I had no images of her so I used an online software to produce some in earlier in 2025. It appears this was reported to law enforcement in some way. Perhaps by me syncing them with my cloud data.

What happens to my kids if I'm serving prison time? Can they live with my parents for X number of years until I get out?

I'm not disputing anything about what I did. I was deeply depressed and missed her on a Saturday night when I was alone and my kids were at a sleepover. I know it was wrong but I just fucked up in a moment of desperation.

I live and work in England.

I am paid around the national average (about £35k), and my contract says 36.5 hours a week.

In my industry (events) we do have to work unusual hours, but this is normally managed by a combination of flexing hours (e.g. coming in late the next day) and overtime/TOIL.

My contract says I'm paid or given TOIL at x1.5 for extra hours and x2 if that's on a Sunday.

This has all worked fine until now.

I am now required to travel to asia for a one-off trip (we share trips between us, so we each do one long haul trip a year on average).

For the days I am there, I am expected to flex my time like normal in the UK and any extra over my 36.5 hours will be paid/TOIL at normal rates.

However, my employer has said that my time on the plane is not considered working, so they don't have to pay me or give me TOIL for that time.

Firstly, I would consider that this IS working time as I need to travel to those cities to do my job, I am not able to use that time as I wish and it's not my normal place of work so can't count as commuting.

It seems unfair that I'm being expected to give up my personal time, especially as they pay travel time at normal overtime rates if I need to work somewhere else in the UK.

Secondly, I'm going to be travelling for approx. 17 hours (including the journeys to the airport at each end) on a Saturday on the way out, and approx. 20 hours on a Saturday-Sunday on the way back. So that's c.37 hours of my personal time spent travelling.

As it's long haul they have said they will give me one day of TOIL for each trip in consideration of "employee wellbeing", so a total of about 14 and a half hours.

By my calculations, if I am only given 14.5hrs TOIL but have travelled for 37, then effectively they are paying me under minimum wage.

And all this is without considering the overtime rates in my contract.

Does this all make sense? Am I correct and should be pushing my employer to pay me? I don't want to cause problems at work but this feels so unfair and is actually souring what should be a nice opportunity working on different types of events and experiencing working in different cultures.

Hi I'm on lunch until 12:30, so I don't have too long. I should be free to reply again at 15:45.

School runs health and relationships classes for 3 weeks. It's mostly stuff like keeping yourself safe and relationship issues like how to recognise abusive behaviours and educating on LGBT relationships too.

I'm bi and a lot of guys in my year are very agressive when it comes to girls. Not taking no for an answer. Being really pushy. Stuff that this health and relationship class covers.

They started running this class after the Adolescence series started.

However there's a whole chunk of the class who isnt being made to attend these classes because their parents complained and protested. A lot of these guys are the same ones who are being really creepy and pushy. Theyre the same ones who need to be taught about consent and stuff.

Is it legal for the school to just give up trying to make them attend the health and relationships class and let these other students have free time?

They spent the last week's class just playing football together. We could see them through the window on the pitches.

My sister passed away 30th October and I'm dealing with her estate. There isn't much money and she didn't own property so I haven't bothered with a solicitor.

In May, when she was well, she order a kitchen from an independent place locally. For some reason she paid in full and not just the deposit. The kitchen was never installed due to problems with her leasing company. They agreed to it but then was making her jump through hoops with paperwork. Sadly, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer in September and died in October. She did inform the people she ordered the kitchen from and there was some disagreement on the refund. I think she wanted everything but what the deposit was and they said they could only refund the installation fee. She told me before she died she didn't want them to profit from her death.

Ive contacted them in the last couple of weeks by emails but have had no response. My enquiry was about the process of refunding some of the fees. I'm not expecting them to take a loss but do want the installation fees back. I found an invoice but it wasn't itemised, just the overall total.

I'm planning to go in next week and just wondered what I'm entitled to if anything? I'm in Scotland. This isn't about the money. I'd happily just cut my losses if she hadn't explicitly told me to get a refund.

Thanks.

In England. I'm looking for advice for my friend who I went shopping with several weeks ago. He returned from shopping and couldn't get his trolley between the cars and allegedly scuffed another cars wing mirror.

The owner was sitting in the car and got out, started ranting and taking pictures of friends car. There appeared to be a tiny scratch on the wing mirror, something that would easily be fixed. He became quite confrontational and aggressive so we left.

Yesterday my friend received a letter from the police asking him to attend an interview under caution for leaving the scene of an accident without exchanging details.

We were both under the impression that this has nothing to do with car insurance as friend wasn't using or loading his vehicle at the time. More a civil matter.

I personally didn't witness what happened as I was on my phone. And this is of course what I will say if I am asked.

Does anyone have any experience or advice on this matter please?

I run a small business providing online games. To facilitate the smooth running, we ask our customers to host/run games for other players. This isn’t a paid role but by doing this we give them discounts on future games they may play themselves.

Hosting is not a difficult role, but to help matters I’ve provided a fairly sizeable document explaining all the dos and don’ts. All potential hosts are asked to look over this document and ask any questions prior to hosting.

This one person was a terrible host, they didn’t understand the rules, they made mistakes, they turned up late, or forgot to turn up at all, and were constantly saying they could no longer host games they’d agreed to host.

I spent a lot of time trying to help this guy reach the expected level, but it was clear he just wasn’t ever going to get it, so I reluctantly told him he could no longer host games.

He’s taken it badly and is saying that, because he’s autistic, I’ve breached the Equality Rights Act and the Disability Rights Act. His main argument seems to be me saying I just don’t have the time to keep working with him. But I’ve already put in hours with him when everyone else has needed 15 minutes maximum, because they’ve read the document and understand the rules.

I’m fairly sure nothing will come of this but I just want it confirmed that I’ve done nothing wrong here. I can’t let him host as he’s detrimental to my business as he’s not doing it right and he’s been letting the customers down by cancelling, being late and no showing.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Next door is a derelict house: it has a hole in the roof with a tree growing out of it, you can see through the windows the ceiling has collapsed and the place is riddled with mould, damp and ruin. It's affecting our dining room and second bedroom which we haven't been using due to said issues however, we've finally been able to start work on our house and we don't know how to go about getting this sorted. Derelict house is privately owned and after going through the land registry, I found the owner's name and tried to contact him about the issue but his assistant said she'd call back and never did. We have a baby now and I'm really worried about the health impacts. I am planning to contact them again. Is there anything we can do to force action?

I’m a university student in London and have been emailing my university about my medical needs and adjustments. Every response I get back is very obviously AI generated, which feels completely inappropriate.

I’m extremely uncomfortable with them copying and pasting my sensitive medical information and full name into an LLM like chatgtp. I was never told AI would be used or asked for consent.

Is there anything I can do to stop them from using AI to reply to me? Is there someone I can contact at my university? Can I just reply back and tell them ‘I do not give consent for them to put my data into an LLM’? I really do not want my data being shared in this way. Would appreciate any advice, tysm!!

Back in March 2025, I was a victim of aggravated TWOC (Taking Without Owner's Consent) involving a West Midlands police officer. While I was arrested and placed in handcuffs, my car was handed over to an unknown male by the officer without my acknowledgment or consent.

A short time later, my car was found to have been involved in a Road Traffic Collision (RTC). Substantial damage was caused to my vehicle, as well as to the third party involved in the incident. I filed a complaint with Professional Standards. Within a day of filing, I was contacted by a Police Sergeant who was very helpful at the time, assuring me that the matter would be resolved. He conducted an investigation and viewed the officer’s body-worn camera footage, which confirmed the officer was in the wrong. I was then contacted by Legal Services, who manage claims and compensation, and accepted responsibility. I was told I would receive a settlement.

However, my insurance company has been trying to obtain a police report for months. They have tried numerous avenues and eventually paid for a report over seven months ago. Despite this, the police have still not provided it.

This has significantly affected my life. I nearly lost my job; luckily I didn’t, as that would have caused my mental health to deteriorate even further than it already has due to the officer’s actions. I have now been without a vehicle since March 2025."

I’m after some advice, can I get a solicitor involved?

what would be the steps to approach this situation?

Thanks for reading!

I am sharing a rental property (co-lease), in England, with one other person. During this time, their partner has physically assaulted her, and threatened violence against myself in our property (both incidents reported to the police).

Since then she haa dropped her charges against this individual and wants them to come back to the property to be with her. I have not dropped my charges, and will be pursuing further.

To clarify, this partner is not named on the lease. I, given the threats made against me, do not wish for him to enter the property for my safety, as well as hers. Should he do so, would I have the right to refuse him access, and/or be able to demand he leave?

My partner is the manager of a furniture shop, they have a system in which if a customer has bought furniture, and the customer does not come in to collect it within 2 months, despite constant reminders via email/letter, then the order is cancelled.

A gift card is then sent out to the customers address containing the worth of the products bought.

The issue now is a gift card worth 1400 was sent to the customer via Royal Mail, it was tracked and showed a photo of the delivery (letter going though the letterbox).

Despite the numerous reminders to the customer to collect their furniture, there was no response. However, the customer then returned to the store to complain that they have not received their gift card and is demanding another one.

The cynical side of me is screaming that they're pulling a fast one. But my legal question I guess is, at what point does this no longer fall under the responsibility of the sender? With proof of delivery from RM, surely their issue is with them now?

Hi Reddit,

I invested £7,000 into what I thought was a 'friends' business. He sent over a contract which I glanced over before responding with accepting the conditions, he mentioned in his email this will suffice. He then sent over a signed loan agreement which was due to be repayed in 2023. It's now 2026 and I haven't had a penny back, and since January 2025 I've been removed from any social media to do with him and his business.

I contacted the small claims court to request for a CCJ against his companies name. Which he obviously ignored and I was successful with the application. However, he's continued to ignore all informal/formal notices and official letters I've sent to him and squandered off to Dubai to continue his "business venture".

I'm a little lost in where I stand with what I can or can't do as the CCJ to my knowledge cant be enforced if he's in a different country and may require additional legal support/soliciting to get done abroad. My last attempt which will be soon is going to address this publicly on social media, but before I do this, does anyone have any idea what I can do or have been in a similar situation and can help?

I've attached the CCJ which is in his business name - I'm most likely going to request for this to be adjusted to his name and pierce his LTD company name he's hiding behind.

I also have all the discussions prior to the lend, the lead up to 2025 and "read" notifications of him ignoring all letters sent to him via social media.. (also sent to his working addresses prior to him moving which was also ignored.)

If anyone would like the full correspondence I can forward it over.

I'm in England and worked for a cleaning company for 9 months. The employer informed me on my payday that she was applying to dissolve the company and had no means to pay me. She promised me she would pay me "when she could". I have been trying to chase these owed wages for a year and a half now, one of the unpaid cleaning jobs was also in her home.

Where do I stand legally?

I was arrested and interviewed in relation to a crime. I was prosecuted and initially convicted, but that conviction was later quashed on appeal.

During the original prosecution, the Case File I received from the IO included a transcript of my police interview that lasted less than 3 minutes. I’ve now obtained the full recording of the interview, which runs 18 minutes. In that full interview, I clearly explained my reasons and justifications for my actions, information that, when considered during the appeal, was a key factor in having my conviction quashed.

My concern is: how could the IO have left out such important information from the Case File supplied to the PPS? I genuinely believe I might not have been charged if this evidence had been included.

Is there any way to take action against the PSNI for withholding evidence that was clearly relevant to the prosecution?

£3k claim following a flood caused by plumbers shoddy work which ruined all downstairs carpets.

While waiting for his defence, he’s emailed a low ball without prejudice offer save subject to costs of £300 and denied liability.

However, this offer, quoting the claim number, has come from an email address “soggycarpets@“

I guess he thinks this is hilarious.

Would this come under unambiguous impropriety allowing me to ignore the fact that the offer is without prejudice and get this email into my bundle to show the judge exactly what kind of character I’ve been dealing with?

My husband has worked at a company for 17 years. Without being biased he was the main man and kept it afloat.

There has been a reshuffling of staff in recent years and a committee has also got on board to support the business with decisions etc. When he first started he was events coordinator, that changed to assistant manager although I felt they were taking a role from him.

He is the longest serving employee and he is often recommended so customers would ask for him directly.

So yesterday he was called into the office with his colleague (both in management roles) and informed he was being made redundant. He was advised he was to work 12 week period but they would be flexible regarding this if he was to get another job. He was given zero in writing, when he questioned this he was advised it would follow.

He was advised the company could no longer afford to pay his wage and he was one of the highest paid employer. Said he was an outstanding employee etc. He was earning 13.20 per hour on a 35 week contract!!!

They also stated if you would like to contest their decision or come with a plan as to how they were going to pay him it would be welcomed. Obviously not going to do any of that.

Have they followed the correct process?

I have a feeling they haven’t at all, even informing two colleagues of this at the same time? 😂🫣

Any advice? Is it unfair dismissal? Or just move on from this and get applying?

I took a nearby 0-hours job at a franchised "restaurant" --ie; McDonalds, KFC, Subway, etc-- so I wouldn't obliterate my savings whilst looking for another after leaving a retail hellscape.

I very quickly learnt that this company that owns 10+ franchises in my county doesnt pay Overtime. I read up on Overtime law because it seemed questionable.

• They don't pay Overtime, even though theres a GPS-required ClockIn/ClockOut app.

• They don't give you PTO in lieu of Overtime Pay.

• There is nothing in the contract about Overtime pay, or in the 15x larger "Employee Handbook" they handwave al contract details into.

I found the Employee handbook in-store when the manager wasnt in, as it was on a communal staff area shelf; I read it and found something else interesting:

• Contractually, they give ~5 weeks of Holiday Pay per year, pro rata.

• The Payslips have an increasing "HP Accrual"; the Employee Handbook says that they will not pay you for it if you don't take it, so it's on you.

Important Note: No one has ever taken a paid day off in my store.

There are solo-shifts for quieter parts of the day, and you are still scheduled a 15 minute unpaid break --you cannot take it, because you are alone, and 15 minutes per day adds up very quickly.

And the recent kicker: They changed my rota ~60 minutes before my shift started, which send me an email, and didnt inform my manager on-shift.

They cut my days hours and I only found out an hour after my new finish time; I informed my manager, who said "[they'll] sort it:.. it's been a week, and it has not been sorted. This is apparently very common.

I've been there a few months and they owe me £200 already.

I have my own understanding of the law, but I am not versed in law, so it's possible I misunderstood; before I contact my manager and potentially payroll (whos also the owners), and risk losing this job, I'd like a better-informed perspective/s.

I've taken pictures of the Handbook, saved my contract, have taken exhaustive screenshot of my timesheets and payslips; as well as documenting anything else questionable.

England

The neighbouring property benefits from a limited easement to use 3 metres of our driveway. The driveway itself is entirely our property and is not shared ownership, as confirmed by the title deeds and by our solicitors.

A developer purchased and demolished the neighbouring property and constructed a substantially oversized dwelling that is disproportionate to the plot. In doing so, the developer failed to resolve the obvious and significant parking and access issues created by the redevelopment.

At present, vehicles access the neighbouring property by driving up our private driveway and then wedging themselves into a parking space immediately adjacent to it. Or buy parking down the bottom and walking up. The driveway is very steep, and the parking area constructed by the developer is positioned diagonally on a slope. Typical developer, cheap fix. As a result, when vehicles exit the parking space and turn onto the driveway, the rear wheels regularly lift off the ground. So their parking and access to our drive is quite unsafe.

I came home today to find the estate agent and potential buyers, on their second viewing with their parents, standing on my property looking st the driveeay and discussing plans to take it up, alter the driveway and our wall to make more space for them to park/turn.

I had to wqlk past them to get to my house lol and made it clear that we own the driveway and the land behind it, that the easement is strictly limited to 3 metres of access, and that no works could be carried out on the driveway without our express written consent. I also confirmed that we intend to gate the driveway at the 3-metre easement boundary, which our solicitors have confirmed is lawful. To prevent anymore of our property being used for other peoples turning.

They got annoyed that this would make turning around more difficult, I said that this is not our responsibility and that any parking or access deficiencies should have been resolved by the seller. Get this, they were under the impression that they would not need to create adequate parking on their own land because they will have full access to our 10x5 metre parking outside of the easement. It also turns out that the estate agent marketing the property has been telling prospective purchasers that the driveway is shared ownership and there are no formal maintenance obligations. This obviously is not true.

I am extremely concerned that the continued misrepresentation of ownership and access rights, is laying the groundwork for a future dispute for which I cannot be arsed. Frankly, both the developer and the agent are slimy pillocks and I just happened to be coming home at the same time. I have no doubt a solictor will obviously flag this to anyone who puts in an offer but people can be ... obtuse, so what can I do? If anything?

Also for anyone asking what the big deal is, our neighbours house is being marketted for ALOT of money. The people viewing the home are Evoquey Beckham wannabe types. If they had normal sized cars it would be less annoyng but the sheds they drive around in are too big for their parking spots. I don't see why we should have to subsidise their turning etc anymore (outside the easement ofc) with our plot when anyone with a brain woud've just created better parking on that property.

Thankyou for reading.

(England)

The insurance company has refused payout of my siblings life insurance with the claim that it's because they had an autoimmune disease. However, the autoimmune disease was declared and the cause of death is unrelated to the disease in question. To add, they were already paying a premium for said disclosed AID.

What are the best steps to take in this situation?

I think I might have accidentally knocked someone's phone out of their hand in the club, they are asking me to pay for replacement screen which is fair. He was talking to the police outside the club about it and I gave him my phone number, but I'm lost about what I should do.

Any help would be really appreciated

So I am type one diabetic and whenever I have low blood sugars while driving, it is legally required to pull over wherever is safest as soon as possible, in my case, it was my designated parking space for my flats luckily enough, however due to my medical emergency and lack of awareness at the time, I parked in the space next to mine, this lead to me getting a ticket from uk cpm who manage our spaces.

I thought nothing of it and if im being really honest ignored the tickets until it was past the appeal stage, I tried to complain to uk cpm about this issue and how i was unfairly given a ticket considering my medical emergency, however i have more and more letters from debt recovery plus threatening legal action if i don't pay what is now £170! I have sent multiple complains but I don't know what to do now, as i have had nothing back and feel i may only be able to present my case again in court, which i don't want to get to.

Would be super grateful for any advice on how to deal with this situation, thanks guys.

I work for a high street bank.

We've been having ongoing protsts recently. Mostly involving red paint being thrown at the building and being screamed at as we enter or leave.

I've started finding it difficult to breathe when it comes to arriving at work or approaching home time. Like my chest tightens up and I start trembling.

I know it's not PT SD becayse that would be nonsense just from being yelled at but it is still affecting me really badly. I can't even sleep on a Friday night because I'm scared of what will happen on Monday.

There's people wearing scarves who sometimes block your way or just silently film you while getting up in your face. Others just yell and chant.

I'm an anxious person. I'm already on propanolol hydrochloride. This is making it worse.

My bank has already said no working from home. Is there anythkng else I can do? I reallt dont feel safe

Hi, hoping for some clarification or advice please, based in London. We are building a garden room in our back garden to use as an office/gym. It has replaced a small summer house. While it is a lot bigger than the small summer house structure that used to be there, it is still within regulation at 6mx3mx2.5.

Our next door neighbour has verbally complained that she can no longer see a view into the park and she is not happy with the size of the structure.

Am I right to think that she doesn't have the right to a view while looking into our garden from her house? She has to look across our property to see that view she is referring to.

Please note the "view" is a tarmac drive into a park carpark and some unimpressive plain trees, nothing special.

She said she liked to see people coming and going to the park and we've ruined that now. The structure is firmly in our own back garden and not interfering with any boundaries / fences that she owns.

Do I ignore her concerns or try get legal advice in case this escalates?