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Your rights when bailiffs visit your home - entering your home, debts, complaining about private bailiffs, court bailiffs, civilian enforcement officers, certificated enforcement agents. Includes information from the withdra…
Find information on prisons and young offender institutions in England and Wales, including how to arrange visits and how to stay in touch with prisoners.
Terms to enable HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire to be brought under public sector control have been agreed in principle.
How to get a legal or judicial separation if you want to separate from your partner without divorcing them.
Apply for help with the cost of prison visits, including travel to the prison, accommodation, meals.
When your husband or wife applies for divorce: how to respond, agree or disagree, start your own proceedings, court hearing, apply for a decree absolute.
How you can have a marriage annulled, the reasons you can give for annulling a marriage and the forms you will need to apply for an annulment. This includes information from the withdrawn D191 guide.
The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
Ending a relationship and agreeing on money and property, child arrangements (sometimes known as 'custody', 'residence' or 'contact') and child maintenance
Re-register your child’s birth to add the father's name to the birth record or certificate at the register office
A guide to applying for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.
DNA testing can be used in child maintenance or inheritance disputes, or applications for contact with a child or for a child to settle in the UK
Find out if you are eligible for the Family Mediation Voucher Scheme and how to apply.
How to contact the Court Funds Office - email, phone, address, complaints
Wandsworth is a men’s prison in the London Borough of Wandsworth, South West London.
The latest versions of the Criminal Procedure Rules and of the Criminal Practice Directions made by the Lord Chief Justice.
What to do if you have an electronic tag (including curfew tags, location tags and alcohol tags) and how to contact the Electronic Monitoring Service (EMS).
Wormwood Scrubs is a men’s prison in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, West London.
Elmley is one of 3 prisons for men that form the Sheppey Cluster in Kent, the other two being HMP Standford Hill and HMP Swaleside.
Pentonville is a men’s prison and young offender institution in the London Borough of Islington, North London.
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