Saturday, November 13, 2010

Declan's claim for judicial review

On Thursday Declan applied to the High Court for a judicial review of Highgate Jobcentre Plus’s decision of 13 September not to refer A4E Holloway's proposed jobseeker's agreement to the decision maker (the Secretary of State) in accordance with Section 9(6) of the Jobseekers Act 1995. The Jobcentre neither replied to the Declan’s appeal of 22 September, nor forwarded his appeal to the Tribunals Service for a ruling whether the appeal may go ahead or not. They then failed to reply to the letter before claim (see blog of 28 October The High Court (Judicial Review): Letter before claim). Now they are going to have to reply ... to the High Court (click to enlarge):





A4E (Action for employment) is a private company, and the largest provider of welfare to work programmes on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). On Wednesday my A4E Personal Career Coach Greg Janiszek told me that we shouldn't be wasting so much time writing letters. Well, he hasn't seen anything yet, because Declan intends taking legal action against A4E for compensation in the Small Claims Court. For the last three months they have given us an absolute nightmare on every conceivable front and wiped us of the little bit of money we had to get back on our feet. And this after we were forced by the DWP to sleep rough on the streets of London for more than 2 1/2 years because Declan did not "sign on" TWO DAYS BEFORE he was due to do so on 29 September 2006 (see blog of 21 June Department for Work and Pensions double breaches the Data Protection Act: Letter to the Information Commissioner). Nice!


Geoffrey Robertson QC – The Case of the Pope

In the NAC section "What we do", we have updated the page Expose abuse in the church. The eminent international human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC has told us we can publish any six-page excerpt from his new book, The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse, which features prominently in Declan's write up. I chose the first six pages from chapter 10 "Can the Pope be Sued?", a world exclusive. And a must read for every bishop!