Your Rights & the Law with...House Parties & Nights In & Next Day's Homework & Entertainment Finally our folks leave us alone, what is the first thing that comes into our minds "who's gonna win Big Brother 2", sorry the second thing Party!!! We phone our mates and organise who is bringing the boo's, we tend to forget about the consequences. The prime example of this is what if Billy falls on the glass table or Janet smacks her head on the cupboard door. If this happens they are entitled to receive money from you or your insurance policy. To avoid situations like this you may need to make your house a little safer. This doesn't mean that you have to remove all furniture and lift up the carpets. All you need to do is remove breakable items and lift up things like rugs or items off the floors. Gatecrashers: When I throw a party, I always worry about some local unwanted people entering the party (Gatecrashers). The law has stated that you can refuse these people in and if they enter you can use restrained force to make them leave the building. This means that you can not get a baseball bat and chase them out! Music/Noise: We all know that when we have mates round for something like this, the knob on the CD player is pointing at the max. The next thing you know is the old bill is knocking at the door with the neighbours looking out their windows! The police can not do much unless they think that the party is going to breach the peace. You can stop this is when you are told to turn it down, turn it down! If you are the neighbour and you are being disturbed between 11pm and 7am, call the environmental health. If an offence has been committed they can receive an on the spot fine of £100. Copied Stuff- Next Day's Homework & Entertainment: On the Sunday after you have spent about 5 hours cleaning up the mess from the night before you probably will suddenly remember that you have a major piece of course work or homework to do. The easiest option is to go on the net and print off an essay that has been pre-written. This could be the worst idea, you risk getting into trouble with your tutor or teacher (the chances are that they probably have already received that from students in the previous years which was in the same situation as you), you also will risk getting in trouble with the law. Due to copyright laws. If you copy the piece without permission you could be fined or sometimes even worse. This is the same for music, TV programmes, videos and games. If you are caught trying to sell these copies you can be put into prison! The laws stated in this article apply only to England and Wales
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