As it is older than 6 months, you have to prove to them that it is a manufacturing or design defect before they are obligated to fix it. You do this by having an engineer review the item and write a report. You can then claim those costs in small claims court if you win.

I've ordered 3 from Farnell and had them delivered within 3 days of placing the order.

If you're waiting for an RS order, it can't hurt to buy from Farnell and cancel your RS order if it arrives first. If your RS order beats the farnell one, you have the right to return it within 7 days.

And yet in this case, Tor do not have the book available for sale to the OP.

If publishers don't realise that they are pissing people off by refusing to take their money, they're going to have to face the same challenge that the music industry did, instead of learning from their mistakes and offering a solution.

Hardly elective. about 18 weeks ago, my NHS doctors misdiagnosed severe ligament and bone damage as simply 'tennis elbow'. My private medical has so far covered 3 orthopedic visits and 9 sessions with the hand therapist. They are also going to cover the surgery to adress the bone damage (with no deductible / excess) as well as all rehabilitative care.

None of this is elective surgery. When it's done, my nose will still be bent, my ears will be flappy and I'll still look like some kind of scary freak, but I'll be able to bend my elbow by more than the current 20 degrees.

And from case law that has been appealed all the way to the house of lords, I can confirm that it isn't. Just because a random plod let you off does not mean that your experience defines the law.

In the first case, the tool was found in the glove box of a vehicle and a conviction was still reached. I'm not 100% sure about the conditions surrounding the second arrest.

Most of the banks I know spend at least $300,000 a year on equipment and salaries to block sites like facebook. Given how much they spend to stop their own staff accessing FB, why did they try and sell it to other people?

Or threaten to kill them. That's what he's really in trouble for.

It's actually NOT perfectly legal to have a locking blade on a multitool. To the best of my knowledge, there are only two multitools that are legal for day to day carry in the UK. One is a victorinox with a non locking blade and the other is the Leatherman knifeless fuse.

Carrying a blade that locks open, regardless of length is illegal unless you can prove that you had a good reason to have it with you. It is an absolute or strict liability offence, and the police do not need to prove intent or guilt in any way - you are automatically guilty unless you can show a good reason for having the item with you at the time you are arrested.

Having a multitool on the way to work where it will be used is acceptable and defensible. Having one with a locking blade at the pub on your way home from work is NOT acceptable or defensible under UK law. Ministers have admitted that they never intended for this to be the case when the knife laws were drafted, but at least two people have been convicted of knife crime for having a multitool on their person and not being able to show a reasonable excuse for having it at that time - again, habitual carry is not an accepted excuse.

I blame the CPS far more than I do the police. The police make an arrest - the CPS decide whether to pursue a charge or not.

Kittinger is a consultant on this project, so I guess he's ok with losing his record :)

Where in Europe ? The UK still uses imperial...

And if I remember that, they included mortgage / rent costs in the expenditure box just to skew the amounts.

RBS (a UK bank) were told by dozens of people that getting rid of the people who knew the batch processing system and moving their jobs to India was dumb. They did it anyway.

Week before last it all went bang. People weren't getting paid, at least 2 people were stuck in jail because they couldn't prove that they'd paid their bail due to RBS systems being down.

RBS won't change a thing after this.

There is no long term loyalty from any job.

Only one way to find out - get an American judge to issue an extradition warrant. It's not like we just ship them over because we think you'll want them - you have to ask first :)