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The National Living Wage is £11.44 per hour for over-21s (2024) — here's how minimum wage works, who gets it, and why it's below the real…
When someone dies in England and Wales with no will and no traceable relatives, their estate becomes bona vacantia and passes to the Crown…
Anyone can nominate anyone for a British honour through a Cabinet Office form, but independent committees, HMRC and propriety vetting, and…
Speed camera fines have gone straight to the Treasury since 2007, not to councils or police, and the system's real economics now run…
Around 180,000 people are summoned for jury service in England and Wales each year, into a process of waiting rooms, strict secrecy rules…
Anyone can demand recorded information from public bodies for free, and the gap between that right on paper and in practice is where most…
Every missing person report in the UK is graded no-apparent, low, medium or high risk within hours, and that grade, reviewed by an…
Inquests answer four narrow questions about a death and are barred from assigning criminal or civil blame, which families often learn…
When a Crown Court jury deadlocks, the Juries Act 1974 permits 10-2 majority verdicts after two hours, a Watson direction may follow, and a…
