Conspiracy Theory Tricks
by Jack Payne.The best scams are built around conspiracy theories. They afford the ultimate shell game.Why?Because it gives the scam artist "cover." It fortifies him with an automatic defense against his critics. It exonerates him from past failures. And, impo...
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Mail Theft Made Easy
by Jack Payne.Criminals regularly "case" residential neighborhoods, staking out homes that are vacant--due to vacationing, business travels, or other away-from-home reasons. Object, of course, is to, when empty, burglarize them.Identity thieves are now taking the...
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Bristol Royal Infirmary Scandal
by Laurence Vick.A new website offers data on hospital success rates in children’s heart surgery but, according to Michelmores, families whose children were severely injured as a result of botched surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary ten years ago are still waiti...
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Quality Of Care Issues
by Laurence Vick.Publication of the Healthcare Commission's long-awaited report into the quality of care provided by independent sector treatment centres (ISTC's) has been delayed still further.At a Commons debate on ISTCs in May health minister Andy Burnham said the...
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Report of Epilepsy Services
by Laurence Vick.This week saw the publications of the Joint Epilepsy Council of the UK and Ireland's online parliamentary report: "Wasted Money, Wasted Lives".A long list of failures in the care and treatment of people with epilepsy has resulted in around 400 avoida...
Surveillance Art
by Pierre McLean.It is very common within the private investigation industry to refer to surveillance as part art and part science. Some even state the longer one does it he/she can become an alchemist and transforms it from the science into the art at a highly devel...
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Property Law in Thailand
by Chris Heath.Thailand is becoming an ever more popular retirement and choice of country to live with its low costs and beautiful scenery not forgetting of course the world famous friendliness of the Thais themselves. But finding out about the laws governing prope...
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European Community Trademark
by Michael Stewart.The European Community Trademark is a system whereby a trademark owner may file one trademark application with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), in one of the designated language, which, once registered, gives the trademark ...
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Cocaine For President Bush OK
by Douglas Whalen.This post will review the case of Guiles v. Marineau, 461 F.3d 320 (2nd Cir 2006) cert denied June 29, 2007, another student freedom of speech case. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a school could not censor a stud...
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DVD Ripping - Legal or Illegal?
by Tim Moss.U.S. copyright laws forbid the sale of software that bypasses DVD copy protection. Despite this there are hundreds of the software packages available online that have that capability.In recent cases brought under the existing law the claim was made ...
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Driver Distraction and Cell Phone Use
by Matt Napier.For any victim of a personal injury sustained in a motor vehicle collision, it is crucial to establish the “cause” of the collision in order to establish liability against a driver. In all cases, the personal injury lawyer will seek to establish...
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