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Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
You can usually get permission to use someone else’s intellectual property…
To use an existing trade mark you should contact the current owner. Find…
Contact the owner of the patent to see if they’ll: license it to you sell…
You can’t copy or use copyright material without permission. For example,…
To use a registered design you must contact the current owner and either…
You can allow another person or an organisation to help manage your account or act on your behalf.
Help someone make decisions if they appoint you or if they lack mental capacity - includes using a power of attorney, becoming a deputy and getting a one-off Court of Protection ruling
Someone can choose you to make and carry out certain decisions on their…
As someone’s attorney or deputy you must: give them all the help they need…
A person may not have mental capacity because of a problem with the way…
Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
How Universal Credit claimants can give consent for their information to be shared with another person or organisation to help them deal with their claim.
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
How to register and update your personal, business and land details on the Rural Payments service.
How to enforce copyright when somebody uses your work without your permission.
This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
Permission from parents and courts to take a child on holiday abroad and avoid abduction
The law on squatting - what squatting is, squatters' rights, removing squatters, getting your property back from squatters and adverse possession. Includes information from the withdrawn EX332 and EX333 guidance.
When you can share information about your case, what you can share and what to do if someone else shares information.
Check someone's driving record - vehicles they can drive, penalty points and disqualifications
Deal with the Tax Credit office for someone else - authorisation, TC689 authorisation form, appointees, if your child has a baby
Apply for access to public funds if your permission is based on your family or private life, or you hold a BN(O) visa, and your financial circumstances change.
Sets out when planning permission is required and different types of planning permission which may be granted.
Who gets copyright, types of work it covers, permitted use of copyright material, how to license and sell copyright and help resolving disputes
Making someone bankrupt is one way to recover money owed to you – bankruptcy petition fees and download a guide to creditor bankruptcy petitions
Acting as an attorney - duties, including registering a lasting power, starting to act, gifting, handling disputes and replacement attorney responsibilities.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
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