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• How to make an insurance claim after flooding
  Posted on February 25, 2014 by QualitySolicitors
  If you’ve been unfortunate enough to be affected by the recent flooding and your home has been damaged, then we understand that you'll be feeling upset and shocked by the experience. There are things that you can do now to speed up your home insurance claim and get back into your home as soon as possible. By following the advice given here you should be able to ensure that your insurance claim progresses smoothly and quickly.
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  Posted in: Housing and property
  Tagged: government, flooding, weather, funding, help, finance
• What is the Government doing to help flood victims in the UK?
  Posted on February 20, 2014 by QualitySolicitors
  The floods might have given Government ministers plenty of photo opportunities while standing in flood waters in their wellington boots, and the prime minister might have pledged the “Whatever it takes, money will not be the object", but what is the government really doing to help flood victims in the UK? With even more storms on the way action is needed urgently.
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  Posted in: Housing and property
  Tagged: government, flooding, weather, funding, help, finance
• Spring cleaning the statute book: it's not just old laws that should go
  Posted on April 11, 2012 by Louise Restell
  Easter Sunday, along with Christmas and birthdays, is the only day you are allowed to eat chocolate for breakfast. It’s not a very enforceable rule and not one, as far as I know, defined by statute, but it’s a rule nonetheless. Unlike the supposed law banning eating mince pies on Christmas day, which is, as with many of the most amusing examples of stupid laws, an urban myth. 
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  Posted in: Rule of Law
  Tagged: bad law, government, LASPO, Law Commission, legislation, parliament, regulations, secondary legislation, statutory instrument, stupid laws