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Could I add myself to the waiting list on this one too? Many thanks!

Could I add myself to the waiting list? Thanks Hamadryad for organising this - was about to start to put together a list of books I wanted to buy and boy did the list get expensive! A good way to try before you buy as it were, and even if it ends up being a book you don't buy - you might pick up some odds and sods from it too! How does the postage work - do I need to send any money to the guy who posts it to me, or are we just responsible for the postage to the next guy or gal we send it on too??

A quick hello from me I'm just starting out in arb following an out career change from being a property / land lawyer. I know it may seem a strange change, but in fact I'm really just going back to do what I always really wanted to do. Getting out of the office is the best thing I've ever done I'm getting through my tickets (hopefully) in the next few months so you can probably expect lots of stupid questions from this end!

To be honest, I've always found that when you try and get insurance companies to do short term policies for say a month or so, its never that cost effective. Whilst I was at uni, my parents would add me to their car insurance for a few weeks each time I was home outside of term time. In the end it ended up being far cheaper to keep me as a named driver all year. I know its a different set of circumstances, but don't rule out that a whole years policy might be just a cheap and may be useful to you if this situation crops up again during the year.

The Land Registry will only be of help if the land is registered. Often, what happens is little pockets of land between properties is never properly registered and the ownership is a little flakey. To find out if its registered you will need to make a SIM search application to the Land Registry. It costs £4.00 and you'll need to give them a map of the extent you want to search. This result will tell you if its registered and, if so, you'll need to order the relevant registered title (which is also £4.00). The Land Registry are (these days) pretty helpful on the phone, so I'd give them a call. As has been said above, I imagine you'd just hand this over to your insurers who will get their legal teams on board and will work with the other relevant insurers (i.e. your neighbor's buildings insuers etc) to work out liability and get it sorted. I'd be careful starting a battle with your neighbor, I've seen disputes like this go way out of proportion. I'm not saying liability is your neighbor's (a few paragraphs on a forum can never give the true answer) its likely to be sorted by his insurance co - so not much point starting a war with him. I used to work in land law before coming into Arb, so if you have any issues with what to do with the Land Registry, then feel free to PM me.