M Boyce
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 103)
Something on section 42(1) related to seasoned appellant Mr O'Hanlon (see comment above). He appealed this DN:
https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve...
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...
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...
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...
This person's 544 annotations
I agree Jason and J Roberts.
https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2019/2615778/fs50807165-1.pdf
The above ICO DN published o...
Interesting stuff J Roberts.
just a quick update on my case.
The PHSO had until 9 September to make final submissions. They failed to do so.
So th...
A few posts back I outlined how the FOIA, the FTT and sometimes the ICO - depending on which case officer you get - do not predicate disclosure of info...
Thanks J Roberts. Another very telling case regarding the failure of the PHSO, the ICO, PACAC, and the judicial system. It's all very depressingly fami...
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...
Jason, the ICO are not arguing that only in very exceptional cases WILL the public interest outweigh the exemption. They are arguing that only in very...
Money paid by PHSO for legal services
Partially successful.
Thanks for the update D.Moore. Will follow with interest.
Thanks J Roberts. Ultimately it is down to a court or a tribunal to decide whether the information supplied is within the scope of the request and then...
EUREKA!
I don't know why I've not realised what has been staring me in the face for many months: it is not just the PHSO that is breaking the law, it...
Thanks for your last post J Roberts, it is very interesting. I may well refer to it in my next submission to the Tribunal - now extended by the Tribuna...
I will shortly be writing to the Tribunal Registrar to ask that GRC Rule 7(3)(e) be invoked, whereby the Tribunal makes a request to the Upper Tribunal...
Thanks for the links. I'll have a read through them.
Yes it had occurred to me that the ICO are saying that the legal advice is irrelevant - 'not wit...
I've not read it, but it could be worth a look.
In my case, even if the Tribunal find that the public interest favours disclosure, then what would ac...
Thanks J Roberts.
I take your point. I will not at this stage, however, be asking for any of the content of the 'withheld information' - external le...
Ministry of Justice (MoJ) criticised over forging documents
Awaiting classification.
If I were you I would ask them for a review now. Don't wait for them to reply to your query here as it eats into the time you have for asking for a rev...
A.E., It is the Information Tribunal. I've provided the link below.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/information-rights-appeal-against-the-commissioners-d...
Thanks J Roberts.
I have only used the words sham, dangerous and corrupt because they all demonstrably apply to the PHSO review process. I wouldn't s...
Agreed Jason
As predicted, the PHSO has now opted to withdraw its last submission to the Tribunal in order to prevent me from seeing it. This submiss...
Tomorrow is crunch day: the PHSO must let me and the Tribunal and the ICO know whether they wish to withdraw some of their last submission to the Tribu...
In the next week or so the ICO will publish a decision notice on its website which 'finds' that one of my FOI requests concerning the PHSO review proce...
Thanks Jason.
J Roberts, the PHSO make sure that complaints submitted to them not only do not the reach surface, but are sunk without trace.
The Tr...
Thanks for this J Roberts. It nicely further illustrates that the ICO simply cannot be trusted. When faced with increasing evidence that they are wrong...
There is no hearing date at the moment because of the PHSO's 'games' involving its 'reasons' for trying to undermine the Tribunal process.
At the mom...
No A.E, you're not missing anything. It does not seem fair to me either. If the PHSO do decide to effectively withdraw their submission to the Tribunal...
Thanks Jason.
A.E., I obviously can't be privy to the withheld legal advice at the moment; that will be for the Tribunal to decide later. It appears...