Publisher's Synopsis
How can you resolve disputes with neighbours? Do you have to pay for poor building work? Are you entitled to a tax rebate? Will your insurers pay in full? This guide to law for the layman comes up with the answers to these and hundreds of day-to-day dilemmas. It aims to steer readers through the legal maze, as consumers, home owners, taxpayers, employees, motorists and patients.;Writing in a straightforwards style, the contributors range from practising lawyers to tax consultants, and from government departments to specialists in consumer affairs.;Special features are included on major life events - birth, marriage, divorce, death - and also such important issues as education, starting a business, buying and selling a house, pollution, the Internet and income tax. This guide features 600 entries designed to assist readers in deciding when to turn to the experts in legal matters, and when it is possible to save significant time and money by following simple step-by-step procedures.
