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Duncan Roy: contact - cv - photographs Practice: law - geography - paperwork - fees & billing Library: public - calculators Diary: public Organisation: clerking - returns - deadlines etc., |
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Brighton Barrister - Duncan Roy
Public Information - external links
This page contains links which benefit the public. If you know of a useful link which is missing from this page or find a broken link, please email me. All links open in a new page.
Legal |
Software |
Life |
Advice |
Freeware |
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Community Legal Service (CLS) - a.k.a. Legal Aid |
For Work |
Trains |
| CLS Eligibility Calculator - click link on page to see whether you qualify for 'legal aid'. | Firefox - an excellent browser, for which this site is optimised | Times & tickets |
| Legal Services Commission - in charge of the CLS | Thunderbird - an excellent email reader (and sender) | National Rail Enquiries |
| Citizens Advice Bureau | Open Office - an excellent office software suite ( | Live Departure Boards |
| Accident Line - Law Society free telephone service connecting citizens with personal injury lawyers | Free Software Foundation - free software is a matter of liberty not price | London Zonal Fares |
| Motor Accident Solicitors Society | For Play |
Weather |
| Advice Now - independent service run by Advice Service Alliance | Google Earth - download and fly around as if you were a sattelite | Rainfall radar - the Met Office's graphical display of rainfall at half-hourly intervals, for the last six hours |
| Advice Now's Guide to Compensation | BBC Weather | |
Courts |
Blogging |
Climate |
| Court Service | Blogger - free online service | Environment Agency Flood Map - not that useful |
Benefits |
Word Press - free online service | Maps |
| Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) | 3D design |
Street Map |
| Pensions Information | Sketch Up - freeware from Google | Google Maps |
| Benefits & Work - information and training by freelancer Steve Donnison | Recommended accomodation |
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| MultiKulti - debt, employment, health, housing, immigration and welfare benefits. Languages currently supported are Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, French, Gujerati, Somali, Spanish and Turkish. PDF format documents. | Park Cottage Bed & Breakfast - near Colchester | |
Charities |
Photographs |
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| Help the Aged | Iain Roy - photographs from Greenland and Scotland | |
Consumer |
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| Office of Fair Trading | ||
| Trading Standards Central | ||
| Consumer Direct | ||
| Consumer Rights Expert - articles written by experts | ||
| Oxfordshire Trading Standards Department - provides much information | ||
Criminal |
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| Criminal Justice System Online | ||
| Criminal Law Solicitors Association | ||
| Victim Support - helps people cope with the effects of crime | ||
| Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (a non-departmental body which administers the criminal injuries compensation scheme) | ||
| Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel | ||
| The Police | ||
| Prison Service | ||
| Sent Down - a guide to coping with imprisonment, written by convict | ||
Data Protection |
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| Data Protection Registrar - includes searchable database of registered users of data | ||
Discrimination |
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| Commission for Racial Equality | ||
| Government information re disability | ||
| Disability Rights Commission | ||
| Barton Hill Advice Services - Bristol based but website useful | ||
| Deaf Lawyers UK | ||
| Solicitors for the elderly | ||
Employment |
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| Direct Government | ||
Human Rights |
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| Your Rights - site from Liberty, explaining Human Rights Act 1998 | ||
Immigration |
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| Home Office Border & Immigration Agency - assuming the responsibilities of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate | ||
| UK Visas | ||
| MultiKulti - debt, employment, health, housing, immigration and welfare benefits. Languages currently supported are Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, French, Gujerati, Somali, Spanish and Turkish. PDF format documents. | ||
| Immigration Advisory Service - non-Governmental free advice | ||
| Immigration Services Commissioner - independent, set up under Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, to regulate immigration advisors | ||
| Immigration Appellate Authority - appeal tribunal | ||
Housing |
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| Shelter | ||
Magistrates & Judges |
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| Department for Constitutional Affairs - information about magistrates | ||
| Judges - explains work of judiciary | ||
| Magistrates Association | ||
Mental Health |
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| Mental Health Act 1983 Hyperguide - no longer updated | ||
Notaries |
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| The Notaries Association | ||
Intellectual Property |
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| UK Patent Office | ||
Planning |
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| Boundary Problems | ||
| Planning Applications Guide - for the whole UK | ||
| Garden Law - maintained by a solicitor | ||
Tax & Money |
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| Chartered Institute of Taxation | ||
| Low Incomes Tax Reform Group | ||
| Tax Cafe - advice and low priced guides | ||
Death etc., |
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| National Will Registration Service - logs the whereabouts of wills and enables professionals engaged in probate searches to locate them |