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Check someone's driving record - vehicles they can drive, penalty points and disqualifications
Manage the finances or property of a missing person, someone kidnapped or taken hostage, or in a foreign prison and not able to communicate. Apply to the High Court to be a guardian. You'll need a guardianship order.
Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK.
How to remove your home address from the public register if you’ve used it as a service address for correspondence, or a shareholder's address. This also applies to LLPs and LLP members.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Affidavit of marital status for British nationals in Vietnam.
Be aware of misleading invoices offering services to help protect your IP rights in return for a fee.
This page provides guidance for anyone who wants to request information from the SSRO.
Carry out checks on your overseas customers and find out what records you’ll need to keep if you’re approved for the Fulfilment House Due Diligence Scheme.
Get a declaration of presumed death if a person has been missing for at least 7 years or you think they've died - form N208, certificate of presumed death, appeal, complain
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
Use this form to give notice of a vacation of office when administrator ceases to be qualified to act.
Watch our caseworkers' top tips to make sure your applications are complete and correct. Avoid more than 20 common requisition points.
Challenge a claim for a presumption of death declaration if you think the missing person is not dead or died on a different date or in a different place to what the claim says
A collection of guidance about how to protect and enforce your intellectual property. Including information on infringement, counterfeiting and piracy.
If someone dies without a will or known family, their ownerless property (bona vacantia) goes to the crown - check if you're an entitled relative, search for an estate, refer or claim on an estate
How to remove an overseas entity's registration from the Register of Overseas Entities.
Information from the National Health Service on conditions, treatments, local services and healthy living
How to protect your company from scams and fraud and how to report it.
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