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Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - training, work trials, starting your own business, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support
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The police can stop and question you at any time - they can search you depending on the situation.
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Determine financial eligibility for legal aid: check household income, calculate living costs, enforcement action, apply for hardship or eligibility review.
Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats.
How to work out financial eligibility for legal aid: income and capital means testing, passporting and the civil legal aid calculator.
Who can get parole for determinate and indeterminate sentences, represent yourself at a hearing and challenge a Parole Board decision
Having right of abode means you're allowed to live or work in the UK without any immigration restrictions - apply for a certificate of entitlement to prove you have it.
How to understand a search report. You get a search report when you pay for a search as part of the UK patent application process.
Landlords need to follow certain procedures when evicting tenants - find out about eviction notices, harassment and illegal evictions, and going to court
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
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