M Boyce
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 100)
Jason, I promise you it is 100% true. It is hard to believe that a lawyer (who is supposed to be an expert in public law) could or would say such a rid...
Legal advice from external lawyers on the legal status of PHSO reviews.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Awaiting classification.
Thank you for contacting the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s (PHSO) Freedom of Information and Data Protection Team. This is to confirm w...
Judicial reviews of PHSO reviews of final reports
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Dear M Boyce
RE: Your information request: R0000488
I write in response to your email of 27 January 2019 regardi...
Review and Feedback Team (RAFT)
Partially successful.
Here's another classic example of PHSO lies and deceit.
In the above RaFT guidance it states the following:
'Recommendation.
Following on from yo...
Low paid temporary workers are being denied their full personal tax allowance if they claim Universal Credit.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Dear M Boyce,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 1st
January.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Central...
Thanks J Roberts.
Section 14 is used by the establishment to silence those who threaten to reveal its wrongdoings.
ALR applicable throughout the lifetime of a complaint or just at the beginning of the complaint?
Refused.
Yes the PHSO legal team has got it wrong. ALR logically must apply throughout the lifetime of a complaint, and not just at the very beginning.
The PH...
Yes A.E. I am making a submission to PACAC. My submission will be about the sham review process. Sadly I suspect that PACAC will not discuss this matte...
Fresh investigation or re-opened investigation?
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Dear M Boyce,
Internal Review of Freedom of Information Request
I write in response to your email of 2 November in which you requested an...
FOS final decisions and the direct contradiction between case law and the Ombudsmen FAQ's
Response by Financial Ombudsman Service Limited to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Dear M Boyce
Thank you for your email and I'm sorry for delay in replying to your request for an internal review. A copy of our response is now attach...
Revised guidance note and amendment of decision letters.
Partially successful.
Agreed J Roberts.
The 'clarification ' by the PHSO as usual just makes things even more unclear. How can something that is provisional be final? How...
The PHSO wasting public money.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Dear M Boyce
RE: Your information request: R0000093
I write in response to your email of 2 July 2018 regarding your request
for informatio...
The PHSO sham review process.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Dear M Boyce
RE: Your information request: R0000092
I write in response to your email of 2 July 2018 in regards to your
request for inform...
Universal Credit makes taking a holiday financially impossible.
Information not held.
Someone working 30 hours a week normally would be earning over £338 a month which would mean they would be placed in INDIVIDUAL EARNS OVER ART - LIGHT...
Number of cases that the Legal Aid Agency has granted legal aid to complainants against the PHSO
Response by Legal Aid Agency to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Dear M Boyce,
Please find attached our response to your recent Freedom of Information
request.
Yours sincerely,
Information Governan...
Please find attached a response to your recent FOI request
Many thanks
Enquiries & Information
[1]Description: Description: Descr...
Alternative legal remedy
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Thank you for your e-mail to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. This return e-mail shows that we have received your correspondence.
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Time taken to complete reviews of decisions.
Successful.
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...
The PHSO's judicial review game of risk.
Successful.
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...
Timing out of judicial review.
Partially successful.
That one person must therefore have been me.
So other complainants were not forewarned that the Court would almost certainly refuse them permission to...
Universal Credit is designed so that it really does pay to break the law
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Dear M Boyce,
Sorry for the delay with your reply.
Please see the attached reply to your Internal Review request 579
Yours sincerely
DWP Strategy...
Number of requests for a Customer Care Team review of Final Decisions since December 2014.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Dear M Boyce,
Re: Your Information Request - FDN-275054
Thank you for your email of 7 February 2018. We are writing in response to
your re...
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...
Qualifications of your legal assistant(s).
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Thank you for your e-mail to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. This return e-mail shows that we have received your correspondence.
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This person's 373 annotations
Jason, I promise you it is 100% true. It is hard to believe that a lawyer (who is supposed to be an expert in public law) could or would say such a rid...
As stated above the ICO have told me that they cannot tell me whether the PHSO have supplied them with external legal advice, because to do so would re...
Kafkaesque indeed. The PHSO told me that the ICO lawyers would decide whether to let me know whether the Ombudsman had sent their external legal advice...
I'm not sure whether this issue falls within the remit of the Data Protection Act, but I'll certainly look into it.
It is simply not a sustainable arg...
Yes, and if they're not feeling nervous, then they really ought to be, as they have got far more to lose than me, as this case could well prove to be q...
Very dubious indeed.
The ICO have now informed me that the PHSO have applied to the Tribunal to be joined as a party (not to the party!). This means...
The ICO lawyer has replied and has stated that if he were to just simply say yes the PHSO has supplied the ICO with the external legal advice that they...
The ICO lawyer has now sent me their response to my grounds for appeal. As expected, it is a joke. I will outline their response on here shortly.
I h...
Quashing reports - advice from legal team and senior colleagues
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Refused.
Thanks for the latest update.
Yes A.E. that's not a bad idea.
At the moment it is just a case of taking each necessary step one at a time.
Anyone who has ever had any dealings w...
Or if I wanted to do something more rewarding, I could just poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick.
We know that the ICO is biased in favour of authorities. So is the ICO (the Commissioner) also biased towards itself? The ICO is a public authority and...
So now the PHSO have refused my last FOI request as vexatious because they say that there is limited value in the public knowing that the Ombudsman is...
I should here back from the ICO/Tribunal tomorrow with the ICO's response to my grounds for appeal, or Monday 11th March at the latest.
The ICO and PH...
The ICO stated in my decision notice that the PHSO had only sent them INTERNAL legal advice (between PHSO lawyers and senior staff). Yet I had asked th...
PACAC scrutiny of PHSO
Request to House of Commons Administration Committee by phsothefacts Pressure Group. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Delayed.
All of this comes as no surprise. PACAC only published a much shortened version of my submission last December. I spoke to the Second Clerk to the Comm...
Yes the PHSO is a brick wall, which is aided and abetted by its friend the ICO, which appropriately is a stone wall.
When the ICO wrote to the PHSO a...
A.E., I'm not a professional lawyer, but I do have experience of dealing with other complex legal issues. It's simply a matter of putting in the hours...
In my decision notice from the ICO it stated that the PHSO had only sent the Commissioner communications between PHSO internal lawyers and other PHSO...
I could appeal to the Upper Tribunal (UT), but an appellant has to show that the FTT made an error of law. In terms of section 42 of the FOIA , this wo...
Austerity has been a godsend to the Conservative Government. It has enabled them to make sure that only the rich get justice. Legal aid has been all bu...
Quashing reports - advice from legal team and senior colleagues
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Refused.
Nicholas
The case officer dealing with your case will by now have written to the PHSO asking them to provide their 'detailed' reasons for refusing yo...
Yes this is important information, which I shall use.
It proves that the ICO's assertion that they are impartial to be a lie. They will do anything...
J Roberts
This is an excellent find. You always make informative and useful posts on here. I will certainly be making significant reference to it in...
Yes, and what does all this covering-up of failure and wrongdoing actually achieve? We all use the NHS and other government department services. If mor...