Wednesday, July 06, 2011

The High Court dismisses Declan's complaint for maladministration

In Monday’s blog A4E raises a third 'sanction doubt' against Declan, I mentioned that Declan had made a complaint against the Administrative Court Office of the High Court for their handling of his case against our jobcentre, Highgate Jobcentre Plus (see blog of 14 April Declan's Notice of Renewal of claim for permission to apply for Judicial Review). Well, little did we know that the Court Manager, David Brupbacher, would kick the dismissal of the complaint up to Her Majesty’s Courts Service (HMCS) Complaint Handling and Enquiries Team, leaving only the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to investigate:

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It has been a rough couple of days. As I also showed in Monday’s blog, we have lost the internet connection in our flat; so even if we want to send an email, one of us has to run off to the local internet cafe or a library. Our live-in landlady Belinda McKenzie has two accounts with different providers and three access points. Our access point “Guest” (situated in one of the rooms below us) is not responding to our laptops and neither is “moj”, which I can usually use in an emergency. This evening we were so desperate that Declan had to ask Belinda to let us use her computer to send an email to our MP, Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone!