Questions about the UK

[Pumaman]

You can go through court filings, see if somebody is a sex offender, search property records by name, all sorts of fun stuff.Ã,  You can even get a satellite photo of land parcels by address or parcel number.Ã,  Not all counties in the US are this helpful (and few offer satellite photos!), but a surprising number are.

I believe that most information like that is not allowed to be made public like this in the UK, due to the Data Protection Act which says that personal information is only allowed to be divulged to people with a very good reason to need to know it.

You can do a simple telephone/address and name/address lookup using tools like 192.com, but I don't think you'll find much more detail than that.

[Anarcho]

Ah, it looks like you're probably right.  Still, I'm sure that property and tax records would be considered public information, right?  People have to be able to find out who owns what property, I would think.

Oh, and I'm not a stalker, just so you know.   :

[Pumaman]

You can find out who owns a property from the Land Registry:
http://www.landregisteronline.gov.uk/
(or the Scottish equivalent)
but they charge a fee to give you the information.

What sort of tax records are you talking about?

[Anarcho]

Well, a lot of US tax/property assessors let you search by owner name, and they'll give you a document that basically says how much a person owes in property taxes as well as an address and other poperty info.

Another question: Is there a website that provides disclosure of political donations in the UK?  We have the www.fec.gov in the US, and if you make donations to elected officials, you have to disclose it with them.

[SSH]

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/regulatory-issues/registers.cfm

[Mephistophilis]

Oh, so, does Scottish really exists?

Urge to kill... rising.....

Personally I'd say it is more than a dialect of the english language as it entirely skews the whole language but that's patriotic me... you should read Trainspotting and Porno that's in modern Scots. or Robert Burn for traditional Scots.

[Doctor Oakroot]

I was using 'dialect' as a linguistics technical term which is completely non-pejorative.