Travel law is one of the most complex, and scrutinised, forms of law on the planet. Mainly due to the fact that our planet is now covered with transport modes. Aeroplanes. Trains. Busses. Cars. You can hardly move for different methods of transport. And with that comes tight regulations and laws surrounding their use, availability and who can use them and when. So for someone moving into the world of law, or for someone just simply learning more about their field, transport law is something you need to brush up on. But this article is going to look at a very specific section of transport law. Electric scooters. It might seem far-fetched that there would be laws based around electric scooters. You might not even know what an electric scooter is. If that’s the case, visit https://www.adultelectricscooters.co.ukand see what this article concerns. Below we are going to touch on a few of the basic ideas surrounding transport law and how it relates to electric scooters.

Transport Law

Now there is no one-size-fits-all law for electric scooters. A lot of the time it will be a state by state basis. States such as NY have heavier regulations on electric scooters, whereas others are much laxer. So for more specifics, you will need to turn directly to your states information on the matter. In general, though most states will require the rider to make sure their scooter is street legal. This means it will need to meet requirements with tires and suspension, rearview mirrors and horn. Due to the scooter being electric, it is scrutinised more than a regular scooter or a normal bike. In the same way, a motorbike is. These standards are often decided at a federal level.

Speed

Speed is an important factor concerning electric scooter law. Most countries, the USA included, often say that, as long as a scooter keeps to under a maximum speed of 25MPH, then it is classified as street legal. This can vary in different states, but as a general rule, it holds. Going a step further there is often a guideline for the total power of the motor on the scooter. A good rule of thumb is 750W but, again, this can change depending on location.

Safety and Claims

Saftey when looking at electric scooters is paramount. A lot of countries require that a rider wear a helmet, even if they are going below a certain speed, they must have a helmet on. And these factors become important in cases involving electric scooters. If you have a client that is claiming against an electric scooter driver, or if they were in an accident while on their own scooter, you will want to take a look at how they were handling their personal safety and the safety of those around them. Due to the nature of an electric scooter, it often won’t be covered by normal insurance when a person is out and about, and they will want to look at getting special insurance. If you have a client looking for more information this is something you will want to tell them.

It seems that in this internet age we are slowly but surely giving away all of our personal and deeply important liberties. It feels like there is a new story every day of a tech giant selling our data or overstepping their boundaries. The confidence these big tech firms have comes from an awareness that the everyday internet user does not fully understand their internet rights. This has led almost every site using cookies to track and consume your internet footprint to distort to their own needs. This passage will aim to break down what a company is actually legally allowed to do with your data, so you know of and are aware of any wrong practices.

What Data can They Collect?

Firstly, I feel it is important to understand just what data a website can collect before we obviously go into how they choose to use it. Under current US internet law, any company can access your location information, how long you choose to spend on a website, your internet history, and the activity on any given site. So, please do keep this in mind as I examine what they choose to do with this information.

Targeted Advertising

Targeted advertising may not be a practice that many are not even aware of, but companies can and will use your internet search history to give you certain advertisements. So, for a thought exercise let us say you have been searching for tennis rackets on google, you should then expect to see an uptick in tennis based advertisements. It is as simple as that. This most certainly does feel like quite a shady practice, that may be open to corruption. The idea in principle is meant to lead to advertisements that the user may find useful and relevant. As stated in the above text, this is companies using their access to your internet search history. So before consenting or ticking an option keep this in mind.

Site User Analytics

This is another practice you may not have been aware of, but companies will access your information to find out which demographics you fit into. Let us say that a company is looking for more users in the 18-25 female demographic, to understand how to reach their quotas they will access your data to see where you fit and what exactly you chose to interact with on the site. This means that companies will legally be able to see your name, age, and gender; to process and analyze as they please.

Hardware Analytics

Companies often store the type of hardware that a consumer is using, in order to gain an understanding of your processing power. This will also be used to gain an understanding of when and where you choose to access different sites. If a user uses his computer mainly at home for recreative purposes then sites will store this information. This information is most often sold back to tech companies so they themselves can understand how their hardware processes different sites and software in the field.

If you are looking for extra safety then perhaps read the list of companies – fcra compliance site, and remember to always read the small print of any agreement, it truly does not matter how small it may seem. The agreements will usually come in the form of website cookies, and though they may seem innocent they do allow for far wielding access to your internet habits and personal information.

Legal disputes during the grieving process are never ideal. The time is bad enough without further complications and everyone deserves that period to be as least stressful as possible. That is what inheritancelaw really understands. they are based in Manchester, Birmingham, and London.

Cross Border Inheritance

Recently, lawyers have cautioned that UK people with assets and belongings in Europe could, unbeknownst to them, leave them to the mercy of the English law after new rules have emerged, and cross border inheritance has come into effect.

I can’t tell you how mad this makes me. It’s another post Brexit thing and I’m sick of it.

The whole purpose of this change is to make it easier for EU residents by giving them the choice between either choosing the law of the country of their nationality or the last place they lived to have an effect on their inheritance.

Forced Heirship

And what’s more, the UK has elected not to follow the new rules but the changes will still affect the UK citizens with, as I said, assets and belongings in Europe. The biggest uproar from this is it allows people to be exempt from the ‘forced heirship’ rules that affect a large number of countries in the EU and dictate how assets are inherited throughout a family after death. The Society of Trust and Estate, as an example of how the rule will be used in action, has said a woman in the UK that owns a house in France would have had to have left it in her will to her husband and kids. This is due to the French Forced heirship rules.

However, because of the new rules implemented, she could choose to have the UK law affect her house, allowing her to leave it to a sibling if she chooses. It offers more freedom. Unfortunately, this also means that people not born in the UK could be affected by their laws without even noticing it.

This could be incredibly problematic and, as I have said, the grief period is a stressful and awful time anyway without this piling on top.

People that don’t want the English law to have an effect on their assets will need to alter their will to make this clear and people with assets across the EU are being urged to review their plans and wills.

If someone in your family or a close friend dies and you are an heir, as a basic rule, you can settle their inheritance with:

• A person authorized to perform legal actions of any EU country
• The courts where the recently deceased lived before their death.

Heirs Choosing the Court

So if there is an issue that needs to be resolved by a court, as an heir you will normally be required to go to the courts of the country in the EU where the deceased previously lived. On the other hand, if the deceased had, in fact, chosen that law of their nationality to apply to what they’re leaving behind, and that is also the nationality of an EU country, you and other heirs can present the issue to the EU courts of that country.

If you are an heir, you also need to prove your entitlement.  Usually, this comes from a national document certifying your status. You can also ask the powers that be to grant you a European Certificate of Succession. So overall, the benefit of this is that it means its effects are identical throughout the EU regardless of where it was given and it’s recognized without any additional procedure. It can be obtained from any EU court.