John Wright

New jobs. Thing is they’ll be cheaper and better quality and choice than Shoprite, whether they’re 5% more at Superstores, as you claim, or more at Express. As I’ve said, we won’t be able to work out the exact pricing differential between IoM and English pricing until the full conversion has taken place and they’re all on, and integrated into the Tesco IT front and back end systems.

Yes, but he’s got a string of recent previous and been given opportunity after opportunity.

It doesn’t matter, we can’t predict. But there will be change. Who could have imagined Paisley and Adams and McGuiness getting in bed together.

I thought that 5 of the Shoprite stores were to become superstores, and 4 express? At least that’s what they announced at the start. I make that Lake Road, as is, Vic Road, Onchan, Ramsey, Peel and Port Erin as Superstores, and Michael Street, St Paul’s Square, Winerite and Castletown as Express. Have I left any out?

It’s excluded as an unfair contract term if personal injury occurs. Occupiers Liability is strict, even for persons there without express invitation/consent.

At some stage the mullahs will fall. Who’d have foreseen the fall of the iron curtain, Brexit, or the fall from grace and influence of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Same in Ukraine. Putin won’t last for ever.

At the end of the day this will never stop until there is an acceptable political solution. Every ethnic/religious confrontation in history tells us that there are only two things that end them. Genocide so one side disappears or a political solution. The political solution normally appears when both sides realise they can’t win and that battering hell out of each other won’t get them anywhere. Of course it is possible that the politics/paranoia and numerical/fire power superiority of one of the sides means they never get there and genocide proceeds. Carrying on the IDF eradication of Hammas with consequent civilian collateral damage just pushes a political solution further away. It won’t solve the problem, it may give temporary relief, but long term it’ll create more resentment and Hammas or Provisional Hammas or New Hammas will (re)appear. Im not sure that the two state solution is the answer. Hiding people behind walls or barbed wire fences doesn’t make them go away or respect their rights. Neither does allowing one sides settlers to expropriate land from the other side. Nor does continued fighting, whether it’s Hammas terrorism or IDF excessive/disproportionate response.

I get lots of enquiries. I have standard advice, for free, as above. Lots of the referrals are from MHK’s as constituency business. If they want to take it further, i advise about cost risk in small claims. They won’t be able to recover anything they pay to me.

In my professional experience the top tenancy disputes are notices to quit ( over half the ones I see are invalid ) and disputes with former landlords over deposit return run a close second. Most of the deposit retentions appear unwarranted.

It was Maypole, Liptons, Presto, Safeway, a diy shop, then Shoprite, not necessarily in that order. Wasn’t it once The Gutless Gourmet? I thought that whole block of 1950’s/60’s low rise shop units was developed and owned by McArds

Not much, it’ll show on your bank statement.

If you had a written lease or tenancy agreement that will set out who was responsible for what maintenance or repairs, internal/external. If you had a written lease/agreement the rent book is a technicality if you paid by standing order. If you originally had a written lease/agreement then the terms just continue after it expires, unless you agree changes. If you want to complain to anyone then it’s IoM Office of Fair Trading. I suggest you check and then write a letter along the lines of. 1. as landlord you are responsible to maintain and repair the electric gate, not us. 2. you did not provide a rent book as required by the Landlord & Tenant ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1976. 3. You did not have the gas installation checked as required by law during our occupation. We returned the property at the end of the tenancy cleaner and in better condition, fair wear and tear excepted, than when we took on the tenancy. If you haven’t returned the deposit within 7 days, that is by 16.00 hours on date to our bank ( give banking coordinates ) we will be referring the matter to the IoM Office of Fair Trading and issuing a default summons for debt in summary business of the High Court and seeking our costs and the issue fees from you.

For in harbour only. That’s been in place since almost day 1 of the restriction. We now have UK waters and UK harbour permission. The logical next step is the Manx waters waiver.

Those waivers are new following recent inspection at Cammell Lairds .

I’m sure there will be an anti competition clause in the business sale agreement. Tesco clearly bought the right to use the Shoprite name, they’re doing so at 6 stores at the moment. I can’t imagine the Nicholsons have the appetite to re enter the grocery market. 2 suggestions. Their lease on the “little Shoprite” branch in Port Erin has come to an end and they’re tidying up ready to hand back to the landlord under the obligations in the lease?. They did say they’d continue with the subway franchise, maybe they’re prepping for that?

Please elaborate

Or that owners don’t make small adjustments, that cost next to nothing.

I’m not suggesting that every place on Island should have a changing places facility. But there should be one, publicly available, in every town on Island, more in Douglas, as well as the Sea Terminal and Airport. Ive just been appointed to a sub committee of a public body. It moved 5 years ago from a building with an accessible ground floor, to one where there are 6 steps from pavement to entrance. I did raise the issue at the time. There are lots of places where dropped kerbs don’t exist at all, or are inconsistent, there’s a drop on one side of the road, but p, when you’ve crossed, not at the other. Lots of shops and businesses have entrances with one or two steps, but no ramp. A lightweight, folding alloy ramp, near the door along with a call bell, can make a huge difference. £200. Solved. Lots of places, once you are in, have aisles that are too narrow. I could name and shame. I won’t. I raise it when I find. But I’m answering your question. Yes, there’s lots of discrimination. Mostly thoughtlessness. Mainly due to ignorance of how easy it is. One pub this summer suggested that as they had outside tables it had complied. It was drizzling. Inside was empty. No one else sitting outside.

But is it government who set the out of hours message and on off times, and change them, or the private businesses that are GP practice providers.

However they are known, and should inform actions, if they don’t then those who breach know the potential consequences. And it informs observers as to whether the actions of one side, the other, or both, are acceptable. And two wrongs don’t make a right. Nor, for that matter, does criticising Israel’s conduct of the war, settling of the West Bank, or Zionism make me antisemitic. Neither does me criticising Hamas terror attacks make me antisemitic ( both Jews and Palestinians are semites ) or anti Palestinian. To many on here, and elsewhere, confuse Israel and being ethnically or religiously or culturally Jewish, you can criticise the state and its politics without being anti semitic. It’s the same with Hamas and the population of Gaza.

That’s very revealing However that “get out there” isn’t carte blanche to use force without restriction. There’s supposed to be a proportionality limit in so far as civilians are concerned. “the incidental and involuntary harm caused to the civilian population during a military attack must not be excessive in relation to the direct military advantage gained”. Theres a good summary of the law of war, and what various international courts and tribunals have established as being allowable, or illegal. And it’s not just death or injury, but damage to infrastructure that damages the life of civilians. https://guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/article/3/proportionality/#:~:text=According to the ICTY%2C the,the direct military advantage gained.

You are TJ, and I claim my £5

Covenants mean a lot. They’re fairly straightforward, most of the time. Problem is they tend to be used in neighbour disputes. Every advocate dreads a neighbour dispute. Their quoted rate doubles, they try and dissuade, client knows best, matter of principle, ignores advice ( which is inevitably to settle as it’ll cost a fortune and even if you win the result won’t get what you want ) and ploughs on, and on. The lawyers only end up in court because the clients, on both sides want their day(s) in court. They want to tell the judge in the greatest detail about the hell their neighbour has made of their lives, with the 3cm gutter overhang, the noise, the overhanging tree branch, the misplaced wall, drain - you name it.

Two things. 1. the brewery is still around to enforce and hasn’t released any of the covenants it imposed. This case has no relevance to the brewery covenants. 2. However, the brewery anti competition restrictive covenants have been cancelled by Act of Tynwald. Keep up at the back.

Not quite. Estate covenants can be created, whereby all the people on an estate, buying from the same vendor can enforce against each other. They’re not easy to create, the courts interpret against them. Vipers nest of neighbour disputes. Im presuming the three objectors thought they could enforce.