https://whatsyourcase.com/ Consumer rights, tenancies, employment and estates explained in general terms — what the mechanism is, what usually happens, and when to get real advice. en https://whatsyourcase.com/consumer/most-contracts-are-made-long-before-anything-is-signed/https://whatsyourcase.com/consumer/most-contracts-are-made-long-before-anything-is-signed/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTConsumerJulien PerrotEnforceability turns on what the parties agreed and when, and in most systems the written document is evidence of the deal rather than the deal itself. https://whatsyourcase.com/consumer/a-warranty-is-a-promise-about-time-not-about-quality/https://whatsyourcase.com/consumer/a-warranty-is-a-promise-about-time-not-about-quality/Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTConsumerImran SheikhA manufacturer guarantee and the rights that attach to a purchase do different jobs, and treating them as one thing is how people end up with less than they had. https://whatsyourcase.com/consumer/changing-your-mind-and-being-sold-something-faulty-are-different-arguments/https://whatsyourcase.com/consumer/changing-your-mind-and-being-sold-something-faulty-are-different-arguments/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTConsumerImran SheikhOne is a matter of policy or a special right attached to certain sales; the other is about whether the goods were what they were meant to be. Confusing them weakens both. https://whatsyourcase.com/consumer/descriptions-samples-and-photographs-become-part-of-what-you-bought/https://whatsyourcase.com/consumer/descriptions-samples-and-photographs-become-part-of-what-you-bought/Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTConsumerLeela FernandesA statement made to sell something can end up as a term of the sale, and the difference between a term, a representation and mere sales talk decides what a disappointed buyer can do. https://whatsyourcase.com/consumer/a-service-is-judged-on-the-care-taken-not-only-on-the-result/https://whatsyourcase.com/consumer/a-service-is-judged-on-the-care-taken-not-only-on-the-result/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTConsumerOmkar JoshiBuying work is different from buying an object, because the promise implied in most systems is about competence and reasonable performance rather than a guaranteed outcome. https://whatsyourcase.com/housing/a-tenancy-deposit-is-money-being-held-not-money-being-paid/https://whatsyourcase.com/housing/a-tenancy-deposit-is-money-being-held-not-money-being-paid/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTHousingLeela FernandesThe deposit never stops belonging to the tenant in the ordinary sense, which is why a dispute over one is argued as a claim for deductions rather than a request for a refund. https://whatsyourcase.com/housing/the-condition-report-at-move-in-decides-the-argument-at-move-out/https://whatsyourcase.com/housing/the-condition-report-at-move-in-decides-the-argument-at-move-out/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTHousingImran SheikhAn inventory is not administration. It is the evidence both sides will rely on a year later, and the party who took it seriously at the start almost always does better. https://whatsyourcase.com/housing/repairing-obligations-divide-a-home-into-parts-and-the-division-is-the-point/https://whatsyourcase.com/housing/repairing-obligations-divide-a-home-into-parts-and-the-division-is-the-point/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTHousingCallum ReesMost systems split responsibility for a rented property between structure, installations and contents, and knowing which part a problem sits in answers most of the question. https://whatsyourcase.com/housing/a-landlords-right-to-enter-is-narrower-than-most-people-expect/https://whatsyourcase.com/housing/a-landlords-right-to-enter-is-narrower-than-most-people-expect/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTHousingJulien PerrotLetting a property usually transfers possession, not just use, and that is why access is generally something a landlord asks for rather than something they simply have. https://whatsyourcase.com/housing/ending-a-tenancy-is-a-sequence-and-skipping-a-step-usually-restarts-it/https://whatsyourcase.com/housing/ending-a-tenancy-is-a-sequence-and-skipping-a-step-usually-restarts-it/Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTHousingCallum ReesThe formality around ending a letting is not bureaucracy for its own sake; each stage exists to make the end date certain, and an invalid step tends to cost months rather than days. https://whatsyourcase.com/work/an-employment-contract-is-mostly-the-terms-nobody-negotiated/https://whatsyourcase.com/work/an-employment-contract-is-mostly-the-terms-nobody-negotiated/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTWorkLeela FernandesThe signed document is one of several sources of the terms governing a job, and the ones that cause trouble later are usually the ones neither side discussed. https://whatsyourcase.com/work/what-a-notice-period-is-actually-buying-for-each-side/https://whatsyourcase.com/work/what-a-notice-period-is-actually-buying-for-each-side/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTWorkImran SheikhNotice is not a countdown to a departure already decided; it is a period during which the employment relationship continues in full, and both parties are purchasing something with it. https://whatsyourcase.com/work/working-out-whether-someone-is-an-employee-is-a-question-about-reality/https://whatsyourcase.com/work/working-out-whether-someone-is-an-employee-is-a-question-about-reality/Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTWorkLeela FernandesEmployment status determines which rights exist at all, and in most systems it is decided by how the relationship actually operates rather than by what the paperwork calls it. https://whatsyourcase.com/work/in-a-dismissal-the-procedure-is-doing-more-work-than-the-reason/https://whatsyourcase.com/work/in-a-dismissal-the-procedure-is-doing-more-work-than-the-reason/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTWorkLeela FernandesMany systems ask two separate questions when employment is ended, and employers who are confident about the reason lose on the second one with some regularity. https://whatsyourcase.com/work/a-restriction-on-where-you-work-next-is-judged-by-how-narrow-it-is/https://whatsyourcase.com/work/a-restriction-on-where-you-work-next-is-judged-by-how-narrow-it-is/Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTWorkLeela FernandesClauses limiting what someone may do after leaving are treated as exceptions to a general freedom to work, which is why breadth tends to be the thing that defeats them. https://whatsyourcase.com/family/what-a-will-can-direct-and-what-passes-outside-it-entirely/https://whatsyourcase.com/family/what-a-will-can-direct-and-what-passes-outside-it-entirely/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTFamily & EstatesLeela FernandesA will governs a smaller share of most estates than people assume, because several common kinds of asset transfer by their own rules regardless of what the document says. https://whatsyourcase.com/family/dying-without-a-will-hands-the-decision-to-a-default-order/https://whatsyourcase.com/family/dying-without-a-will-hands-the-decision-to-a-default-order/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTFamily & EstatesOmkar JoshiIntestacy is not an absence of rules but a set of them, written in advance by the legal system, and the distribution it produces frequently is not the one the person would have chosen. https://whatsyourcase.com/family/probate-is-permission-to-act-not-a-hearing-about-the-estate/https://whatsyourcase.com/family/probate-is-permission-to-act-not-a-hearing-about-the-estate/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTFamily & EstatesJulien PerrotThe process most people call probate is largely an administrative confirmation of authority, and understanding that explains both what it achieves and why it takes as long as it does. https://whatsyourcase.com/family/an-executor-holds-property-for-other-people-and-that-changes-everything/https://whatsyourcase.com/family/an-executor-holds-property-for-other-people-and-that-changes-everything/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTFamily & EstatesCallum ReesAgreeing to administer an estate is accepting a fiduciary role with personal responsibility attached, which is why the job is heavier and slower than the request usually sounds. https://whatsyourcase.com/family/will-witnesses-are-chosen-for-what-they-do-not-receive/https://whatsyourcase.com/family/will-witnesses-are-chosen-for-what-they-do-not-receive/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMTFamily & EstatesAnjali RaghunathanThe formalities around signing a will exist to guard against fraud and pressure, and the rule keeping beneficiaries away from the witnessing is the one most often broken by accident.