M Boyce
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 114)
How Tribunal panels decide appeals.
Awaiting response.
'This lack of legal expertise is not necessarily all bad, but it is important because many tribunal cases can be legally complex.'
I think that in ma...
Appeal EA/2019/0032 was promulgated on 13 May 2021. In that Decision it stated that a very small amount of information should be disclosed to me within...
M Boyce,
I think the FTT decision you referred to here (9/6/21):
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_legal_minefield_of_the_phso#comment-979...
Link to register (Updated 26 April 2021):
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/information-rights-register-of-tribunal-cases/first-tier-tribuna...
Time taken to investigate cases
Successful.
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Scrutiny 2019–20: Government’s and PHSO response to the Committee’s Seventh Report of Session 2019–21
Appe...
Draft Public Service Ombudsman Bill now not fit for purpose.
Partially successful.
Thanks for your email JB with regard to parish council governance. I don't have any specific interest in this area simply because I don't have any expe...
On hiding information:
'25. It is clear in this case that the DWP did not approach this request in the way that it should have done. If the Appellant...
Number of people sanctioned for missing just one JSA appointment.
Awaiting internal review.
Recent UT decision overturns sanction relating to a failure to participate in a UC telephone interview:
KG-v-SSWP (UC) [2020] UKUT 307(AAC)
The im...
Review and Feedback Team (RAFT) guidance 2020
Follow up sent to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce on .
Awaiting classification.
We know who signed-off the revised review policy, but who actually revised it?
We have waited nearly two years for the revised review policy and a...
Number of ICO caseworkers working reduced hours due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Partially successful.
The information provided doesn't really address the question or the issue. It is impossible to disaggregate the information and therefore we do not lea...
Judicial reviews of PHSO reviews of final reports
Partially successful.
Dr Bruce Newsome writes:
'According to heart-breaking testimonials, most complainants are treated by PHSO staff as time-wasters, liars, idiots, fanta...
https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/sites/default/files/The%20Ombudsman%E2%80%99s%20Annual%20Report%20and%20Accounts%202019-2020_
The Annual Report has reap...
To review evidence (the substance of an investigation), or not to review evidence, that is the question.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Thank you for contacting the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s
(PHSO) Freedom of Information and Data Protection Team. This is to confirm...
Closing a claim for UC and receiving a final payment.
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 11th
November.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centr...
Making a fresh/new claim for 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
November.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centra...
The legal no man's land of the sham PHSO review process.
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce. Annotated by phsothefacts Pressure Group on .
Refused.
Very interesting.
Unfair schizophrenia within the ICO
Information not held.
The ICO don't want to supply the information because if they did it would show that when they predicate disclosure of information under section 42 of t...
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 .
Successful.
Dear M Boyce,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 6th
August.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Central...
Thanks for this J Roberts.
To a large extent this particular request has now become somewhat academic. The ICO were eventually forced to admit that t...
The receipt of external legal advice from the PHSO
Follow up sent to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce on .
Successful.
There is now no need to conduct an internal review because you have FINALLY provided the information I originally requested. Why you thought it was...
Can a PHSO manager or a peer review manager now change a final decision from not upheld to upheld?
Successful.
So a manager cannot change a decision, but they can 'request another assessment decision'. But what is an another assessment decision? Who undertakes t...
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...
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...
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How Tribunal panels decide appeals.
Awaiting response.
Yes you're right, the information is not up to date and so your request is good.
I saw that list whilst having a search for tribunal members and alth...
How Tribunal panels decide appeals.
Awaiting response.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/Tribunal.pdf
And then the above.
Very few, if any, of the Tribunal panel members have extensive knowledge o...
How Tribunal panels decide appeals.
Awaiting response.
It is now clear that the two Tribunal members are just there to make up the numbers. In the 'Tribunal panel members/Courts and Tribunals Judiciary,' un...
How Tribunal panels decide appeals.
Awaiting response.
Yes judges are a law unto themselves. They are unaccountable, out of touch, self-serving, entitled, and highly biased in favour of the rich and powerfu...
Appeal EA/2019/0032 was promulgated on 13 May 2021. In that Decision it stated that a very small amount of information should be disclosed to me within...
How Tribunal panels decide appeals.
Awaiting response.
Thanks for this J Roberts. It is an another excellent find.
It is clear that some First-tier Tribunal judges have ideas above their station: they th...
Below is my direct appeal to the Upper Tribunal which I sent off yesterday. Let's see if the UTT also decide to ignore legally binding case law....
How Tribunal panels decide appeals.
Awaiting response.
Yes J Roberts these are interesting cases, but they do show that only ONE lay panel member is 'allowed' to dissent, and therefore this dissension can n...
i'm also not sure how cases are allocated to judges. It is probably random in the sense that as a judge becomes available then they are given the next...
When you look closely at the published decisions on the GRC website you see something rather alarming: upheld decisions appear connected with the same...
With regard to your earlier post, I do think it is highly likely that Aimee Gasston is the same person who worked for the PHSO and who now works for th...
Circulation of draft decisions
Partially successful.
Thanks J Roberts for this important request and the ICO's response.
There is no reason to suspect that 'anecdotally' the number of draft decisions se...
Yes Jason I completely agree that the permission stage to appeal to the UTT from the judge that heard the case is a joke and a complete and utter waste...
J Roberts, thanks for this link to the important new UTT case of Edward Williams (GIA/651/2020) and the disseminating of information related to ongoing...
https://informationrights.decisions.tribunals.gov.uk/DBFiles/Decision/i2856/Platts,%20D%20(EA-2020-0276)%20Allowed.pdf
WOW! It seems there are some g...
Below is the judge’s refusal to appeal. The numbered paragraphs are quoted word for word.
‘Permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal against the Tri...
Circulation of draft decisions to parties before they are perfected
Awaiting classification.
J Roberts
Your request, and the GRC's response, is likely to prove very useful for my direct appeal to the UTT (the FTT will of course refuse permiss...
Thanks Jason.
Your'e spot on about judges. All were lawyers in a previous life and that partly explains their bias in favour of lawyers.
One of t...
Circulation of draft decisions to parties before they are perfected
Awaiting classification.
The ICO may hold information on the circulation of draft judgements, but as they have already suggested, they will not provide it because they will coo...
Circulation of draft decisions to parties before they are perfected
Awaiting classification.
Two other important points to mention.
Firstly, why is the circulation of drafts not mentioned in the GRC Rules?
These are the legal rules that the...
Circulation of draft decisions to parties before they are perfected
Awaiting classification.
This is interesting.
So the MoJ state they hold no information on the circulation of draft judgements. I don't believe a word of it.
They also stat...
D.Moore
I do understand your concern about the threat of legal proceedings from the Establishment. It is their attempt to try and stamp out free spee...
This also sounds really dodgy D. Moore.
Is it possible for you to inquire as to whether the PHSO and the ICO were given the draft decisions to make r...
My appeal to the UTT, detailed above, was received by the FTT yesterday.
My appeal decision was dated 14 April 2021, and promulgated 13 May 2021.
Y...
Circulation of draft decisions to parties before they are perfected
Awaiting classification.
Anyone reading the judge's decision can make their own mind up about whether she acted fairly and justly.
Any notion of justice for ordinary folks in...