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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.
Permission from parents and courts to take a child on holiday abroad and avoid abduction
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
What to do if you think someone's used your intellectual property without permission - types of intellectual property abuse, help resolving disputes and further legal action you can take.
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.
Check someone's driving record - vehicles they can drive, penalty points and disqualifications
How to tell Companies House if a company is using your personal information without your consent.
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
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 Includes information from the withdrawn EX332 and EX333 guidance.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.
Form to be printed and completed by barring customers that would like someone else to act on their behalf.
How to enforce copyright when somebody uses your work without your permission.
Deal with the Tax Credit office for someone else - authorisation, TC689 authorisation form, appointees, if your child has a baby
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
Check someone's immigration status, and that they can access services like the NHS and benefits in the UK
How to register and update your personal, business and land details on the Rural Payments service.
Responding to suspected breaches of planning control.
This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
If you suspect anyone of illegal felling then you can check if permission exists and, if necessary, report the incident to the Forestry Commission.
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