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PHSOthefacts or anyone else please let me know what your take is on the following legal conundrum:
Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967, section 5 (2)...
Dear M Boyce
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Agreed C Rock. You state:
'If there is any real problem with what was said or what was 'slipped out', the person who gave that opinion 'has moved on/...
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Please supply me with the number of cases that the Legal Aid Agency has granted legal aid to complainants/solicitors who have applied for a judicial...
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The information you provided to PACAC was still essentially misleading. You say you want to manage public expectation by explaining that the wait is li...
For anyone interested in what the court's role is in judicial review, here is Justice Warby's take on it:
'Where a court carries out judicial review...
That one person must therefore have been me.
So other complainants were not forewarned that the Court would almost certainly refuse them permission to...
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Please see the attached reply to your Internal Review request 579
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Dear M Boyce,
Re: Your Information Request - FDN-275054
Thank you for your email of 7 February 2018. We are writing in response to
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Dear Harjit Garcha
Thank you for your reply.
I am now satisfied with your response. It is a great pity it takes the intervention of the ICO to forc...
PHSOthefacts
Yes, good points.
Significantly, the PHSO has asked the Court for it to stay proceedings without first requesting consent to such a requ...
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http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/social%20security/docs/a11-6101.pdf
http://www.legislation.go...
Even if the PHSO is exempt from the EU ADR Directive, it does not alter the fact that they are supposed to behave fairly and transparently. Timing comp...
Thanks for your post Robert.
I might well do what you suggest. I am not, however, hopeful that they would extract the information for one simple reason...
C Rock
The PHSO's Annual Report is a sham. All this nonsense about reporting to Parliament is just that - nonsense. They no more report to Parliament...
Keith, I actually agree with almost everything you say. In terms of fining the public authority, I think it would be better to fine the individuals in...
Thank you for your very prompt reply.
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M Boyce
Thank you for this information. It is a shame it took so long for you to provide it and then only because of threats of involvement by the ICO.
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Do you know or even care about how much your pathetic games cost the tax-payer?
So you've had the information forced out of you at great expense t...
This person's 174 annotations
PHSOthefacts or anyone else please let me know what your take is on the following legal conundrum:
Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967, section 5 (2)...
For the past 4 weeks or so I have been trying to get the PHSO legal team to explain why they have broken the law with regard to section 5 of the Parlia...
I've decided that instead of applying for a second judicial review at this stage I am going to write to my MP to ask the PHSO to conduct another review...
Thanks for this J Roberts. If the PHSO are seeking to recruit a new senior lawyer, perhaps they could employ one that can communicate with people who...
Nicholas Wheatley, thanks for clarifying this in terms of your understanding. It will be interesting to see if the PHSO will also clarify it upon your...
PHSOthefacts, I've sent you the review. Public trust in the PHSO is everything, without it the ombudsman is a complete waste of time and money. Two t...
Nicholas Wheatley, you made an FOIA request recently about upheld and partly upheld reviews. The PHSO sent you a spread-sheet with this 'information'....
I spoke to a senior manager on the Customer Care Team today to ask for clarification as to whether the outcomes for a final decision review were still:...
PHSOthefacts, I can forward you my review outcome if you would like to see the whole thing (about 3 pages).
PHSOthefacts, yes you can certainly do this. I have asked the PHSO legal team to explain why the review outcome was not categorised as at least 'partly...
In my PHSO review of my final decision the senior caseworker who conducted the review stated exactly the following:
'In summary, our investigation re...
Agreed C Rock. You state:
'If there is any real problem with what was said or what was 'slipped out', the person who gave that opinion 'has moved on/...
Today I also received the PHSO legal team's reply to my letter before claim under the pre-action protocol for my second application for judicial review...
The senior caseworker who conducted the review of my decision could not tell me whether my completed review had been upheld or not. He said he didn't n...
The PHSO is 'not working properly' (a euphemism for a disgraceful shambles) at every level:
Caseworkers are not properly trained and some are barely...
When I received my review decision a few weeks ago it contained over a dozen apologies and stated that the PHSO had made serious mistakes in their fina...
The PHSO is an organisation that is rotten from top to bottom, and sadly they are being allowed to get away with it by PACAC. They operate with a mixtu...
The PHSO have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to deliver a fair, transparent and unbiased service:
they refuse to publish an updated Customer...
Yes Brenda it is, and on top of this Bernard Jenkin, Chair of PACAC, has just been knighted for his services with regard to the 'scrutiny' of the PHSO....
The information you provided to PACAC was still essentially misleading. You say you want to manage public expectation by explaining that the wait is li...
Your response completely misses the point, as usual.
You provide information on alternative legal remedy (ALR) contained within your updated main guid...
It's interesting how the PHSO have updated their main complaints process guidance, only last updated in November 2017, but they refuse to update their...
Anyone thinking of applying for a judicial review against a PHSO decision should consider the two 'm' tests for legal aid - means and merits - and you...
Agreed PHSO, and I would urge anyone who does not have full legal aid to think very carefully before applying for JR because no matter how strong your...
The judiciary and judges will always claim that they are not biased in their decision-making. In the case of the PHSO they are both de facto and de jur...