Wondering if anyone can help my other half took a couple of photo's which we allowed a friend
to use on their website (it was of their dogs)
Now said friends website was allowed to lapse and somebody bought it's contents and is using the
site - not sure of their intentions - but they even have used his name in the contact to email (but it's not his email address they have just used his name and then an @ steynmere.com) and people may be conned into thinking they are directly contacting Dr Cattanach and they aren't
Are we within our rights to request that they remove our photo's from the old site?
(The photo's weren't attributed on website to my other half but they are his)

Copyright of pics are ALWAYS the photographers, that I know 100%.
I would have thought you are within your right to request the pic/s, you taken originally, be removed from the site. Wether this happens is another matter.

Yes, inform the site hosts that the images are your copyright and request their removal state that permission has not been given.

novAS answer is correct. owever the person before hand isnt, as if you are emplyed and take the pix on behalf of your employer (eg is you are a staff photographer for amagazine or paper etc) then copyright is not the photographers but the emplyers. A small but important technicality :)

Thanks to all for their advice.
A Russian has bought the (lapsed website address) site legally but everything on the site is Dr Cattanach's and we believe the Russian's use of it is illegal.
Dr Cattanach has been through all the channels and he feels the policing is totally lax and there is absolutely nothing that can be done.
However I'm not so sure if anyone else knows anything else that can be tried?

you can contact the people who host the website and point out that they're acting illegally and that they're also responsible - usually they contact the site owner and get it removed.  I had to do this when someone was posting libelous comments and the domain holders acted very swiftly and got it taken off.

I can't find the address it would seem that they are based in Russia?
Keyweb Online Limited IP Network is the host of the website now.