Martin Morton
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 28)
Fit and Proper Persons
Request to University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust by Martin Morton. Annotated by Peter C. Bell on .
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Notice as well that the Trust breached section 10(1) which requires the Trust to "comply with section 1(1) promptly ...".
The Trust had the relevant...
Freedom to Speak Up cases
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This response by CQC is erroneous or deliberately omitting information. My daughter is an ex- CQC Inspector whistleblower and used the FTSU policy to r...
Nick Warren Investigation Report
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Councillor George Davies, of #WirralGate notoriety was elevated to mayor of Wirral t'other day at an empty Floral Pavilion. John Brace would have atten...
Compensation Payments
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Martin Morton on .
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Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
Many thanks for the response. Will Wirral Council be advising Mr Field that his blog post is inaccurate and needs to be amended...
Code of Conduct Investigation report
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Martin Morton on .
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Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Martin Morton
Nick Warren Investigation - Terms of Reference etc;
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Martin Morton on .
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Dear Corrin, Jane,
I'm wondering whether it was the ICO Decision Notice issued on December 15th 2015 or the article published by Wirral Leaks on Janu...
Cover up of financial abuse of disabled people
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Martin Morton on .
Refused
Dear Mr Morton,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
Case Reference Number FS50574905
I refer to your complaint to the Information Commi...
Once We Go For a Reimbursement The Covers Blown 2
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Martin Morton on .
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Dear Corrin, Jane,
As ever - this response is deeply troubling and necessitates yet another FOI request.
Yours sincerely,
Martin Morton
Secret Reports
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And when you two were making these last two annotations, I was enjoying my 55th birthday...
...in WALES.
Death Investigation report
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Martin Morton. Annotated by John Hannigan (Account suspended) on .
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Same old clap trap as they used with my similar request relating to deaths within this local authority.
I am away from the office today. If you have an urgent query please use
the contact details below, related to the service area you require:-
Freedo...
Secret Report 2 - Updated Request
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Martin Morton on .
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Good Morning,
Thank you for your emails below and apologies for the length of time there
has been in responding to you. Council Officers have searc...
Martin Morton - Gagging clause/unreported email..
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Martin Morton on .
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Good Afternoon
With regard your further email below. Please see attachment as Council's response.
Kind regards
Jane Corrin
Information and Central S...
Defamation Information
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Martin Morton on .
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Good Morning,
With regard to your email below and your request for an Internal Review.
Apologies that you did not receive a reply to your original enqu...
In for me,infamy.Morton's oh so defamatory....
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Martin Morton on .
Partially successful
Dear Corrin, Jane,
Thank you for confirming how sloppy the Martin Smith report is (and hopefully more to come).
Witnesses and documentary evidence s...
Martin Smith Bullying/Harassment/Abuse of Power Report
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Martin Morton. Annotated by S. Prichard (Account suspended) on .
Partially successful
This may be if interest re whistle blowers
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/foster_career_a_whistle_blower_w
Balls Rd /Birkenhead Area Cover Up
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Martin Morton on .
Partially successful
Good Morning,
Thank you for your further email, your request has been given due consideration and our original response stands as our current position....
Good Morning,
Thank you for your email below. Please see attached document as Wirral
Council's response to your request for an Internal Review.
Kind R...
Balls Rd Reimbursement
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Martin Morton on .
Partially successful
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your further email below. My previous reply to you, also
below, is the correct advice on the next steps you should take,...
Public Concern At Work
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Martin Morton on .
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Dear Corrin, Jane,
Thank you for the information.
Yours sincerely,
Martin Morton
He who pays DLA Piper calls the tune
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Martin Morton on .
Refused
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your email below, please see attachment as Council's
response and I trust you find the information useful.
Kind Regards
J...
17 September 2012
Our Ref: CQC IAT 2012 0832
Dear Mr Morton,
I write in response to your e-mail dated 5 September 2012 in which you
made...
Secret Reports 2
Awaiting internal review
The meeting on 2nd and 3rd July 2007 of the Appeals SubCommittee was cancelled in June 2007.
However the minutes of the meeting of the 23rd May 2007...
Compromise Agreements
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Here’s a piece of legal opinion from Senior Counsel Hugh Tomlinson QC, which appears to make more likely the prospect of public sector employers opting...
Dear Mr Morton,
Please find attached our response to your FOI request.
Kind regards,
Governance Team
Chief Executive’s Office
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This person's 40 annotations
I'd like to thank the Information Commissioner's Office for their negotiations and hard work on this case.
Hi John
From what I know I think this investigation focussed on the racial slur alone - because they didn't want to go near the more problematic issues...
Whistleblowing Incidents, Alleged Corruption, Police Invetsigations and Internal Investigations
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Hi Dave
If you need a case study!
I was bullied and harassed out of my job in 2008 by Wirral Council.Took 6 years to settle my legal case but I still...
AKA Report
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Talk about name being taken in vain.This could get very confusing .
However not only is the Independent Review/AKA Report deficient in may respects the...
AKA Report
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And they never will Ross.DASS are too scared/too lazy - the choice is yours. Meanwhile vulnerable people are in the hands of someone who perpertrated s...
Wirral - AKA REPORT
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Hi Rossell (!)
This is a personal bug bear and I know it is a title of convenience but I find the reference to the AKA report infuriating.
The title...
AKA Report
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I'm curious as to why this has suddenly come up again?.
I presume there are outstanding issues which still haven't been addressed .
(and frankly will...
Whistleblowing, Alleged Corruption and Police Investigations
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Dave
My case was prior to your request and was originally deemed not to be a whistleblowing case as Social Services held a file called "Whistleblowin...
Secret Reports
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Most appropriate as Mark Jones returned to his native land along with fellow collaborators Sheila Finnigan-Jones and Phil Gilroy and sought refuge in W...
Secret Reports
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Dear Nigel
The irony is , guess what? - I had the reports all along and had them since 2007!........
Mark Jones had left them on the Council's main s...
Fire
Long overdue
Just for clarification Cllr.Crabtree it's Capel Curig.There are some things you never forget.
Here we go again with the rewriting of history.
This is not about "overcharging".This is about "disability discrimination" ( Equalities & Human Right...
Needless to say I will be taking this matter to the ICO.
How can an email about me be shared with an external investigator and yet I'm not allowed to...
Well done Arthur (and thanks also to Wirral's FOI team) you have enabled the release of one of the most significant documents relating to investigation...
The report has appeared and disappeared and was made available on the website 10 months after first publication.
Personally I think the redactions make...
The denial of a redacted copy of the Martin Smith Bullying ,Harassment & Abuse of Power report (April 2011)is most peculiar.
A heavily redacted version...
Dear I.Sevova
Apologies - I somehow missed this.
I think I can help you with some aspects of this request.
An email from Mr.Norman to me prior to the...
In for me,infamy.Morton's oh so defamatory....
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I don't need to convince anyone it was deliberate.The evidence speaks for itself (but hey since when did that count when it comes to a cover up?)
Very...
In for me,infamy.Morton's oh so defamatory....
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Yes I do know.
But according to Council's Retention and Destruction of Records Policy all records relating to Grievances should be kept for 6 years.
Wh...
Balls Rd Reimbursement
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Neat encapsulation of some of the issues Captain (Scarlet).
I was probably a bit mad to think this would be a "quick-win".
Balls Rd Reimbursement
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....and sometimes they don't even get the truth let alone a "sanitized" version.Oh I know how it works - I had my name removed from the bottom of one C...
Balls Rd Reimbursement
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If the "Statement of Facts" is based on the flim-flam in the AKA report you're way off the mark.
This isn't the forum - read the book.
Balls Rd Reimbursement
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Believe me your wasting your time finding excuses for Internal Audit with me.
This FOI request takes on more significance as it would appear that the Council seems to have now partly or wholly rejected the legal "opinion" they pa...
Not guilty - I've only made 7 requests between 2010-12 and received 4 responses.
All responses were overdue.
I am compiling another FOI request tonig...