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    • Thank-you dx, What you have written is certainly helpful to my understanding. The only thing I would say, what I found to be most worrying and led me to start this discussion is, I believe the judge did not merely admonish the defendant in the case in question, but used that point to dismiss the case in the claimants favour. To me, and I don't have your experience or knowledge, that is somewhat troubling. Again, the caveat being that we don't know exactly what went on but I think we can infer the reason for the judgement. Thank-you for your feedback. EDIT: I guess that the case I refer to is only one case and it may never happen again and the strategy not to appeal is still the best strategy even in this event, but I really did find the outcome of that case, not only extremely annoying but also worrying.
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    • the claimant in their WS can refer to whatever previous CC judgements they like, as we do in our WS's, but CC judgements do not set a legal precedence. however, they do often refer to judgements like Bevis, those cases do created a precedence as they were court of appeal rulings. as for if the defendant, prior to the raising of a claim, dobbed themselves in as the driver in writing during any appeal to the PPC, i don't think we've seen one case whereby the claimant referred to such in their WS.. ?? but they certainly typically include said appeal letters in their exhibits. i certainly dont think it's a good idea to 'remind' them of such at the defence stage, even if the defendant did admit such in a written appeal. i would further go as far to say, that could be even more damaging to the whole case than a judge admonishing a defendant for not appealing to the PPC in the 1st place. it sort of blows the defendant out the water before the judge reads anything else. dx  
    • Hi LFI, Your knowledge in this area is greater than I could possibly hope to have and as such I appreciate your feedback. I'm not sure that I agree the reason why a barrister would say that, only to get new customers, I'm sure he must have had professional experience in this area that qualifies him to make that point. 🙂 In your point 1 you mention: 1] there is a real danger that some part of the appeal will point out that the person appealing [the keeper ] is also the driver. I understand the point you are making but I was referring to when the keeper is also the driver and admits it later and only in this circumstance, but I understand what you are saying. I take on board the issues you raise in point 2. Is it possible that a PPC (claimant) could refer back to the case above as proof that the motorist should have appealed, like they refer back to other cases? Thanks once again for the feedback.
    • Well barristers would say that in the hope that motorists would go to them for advice -obviously paid advice.  The problem with appealing is at least twofold. 1] there is a real danger that some part of the appeal will point out that the person appealing [the keeper ] is also the driver.  And in a lot of cases the last thing the keeper wants when they are also the driver is that the parking company knows that. It makes it so much easier for them as the majority  of Judges do not accept that the keeper and the driver are the same person for obvious reasons. Often they are not the same person especially when it is a family car where the husband, wife and children are all insured to drive the same car. On top of that  just about every person who has a valid insurance policy is able to drive another person's vehicle. So there are many possibilities and it should be up to the parking company to prove it to some extent.  Most parking company's do not accept appeals under virtually any circumstances. But insist that you carry on and appeal to their so called impartial jury who are often anything but impartial. By turning down that second appeal, many motorists pay up because they don't know enough about PoFA to argue with those decisions which brings us to the second problem. 2] the major parking companies are mostly unscrupulous, lying cheating scrotes. So when you appeal and your reasons look as if they would have merit in Court, they then go about  concocting a Witness Statement to debunk that challenge. We feel that by leaving what we think are the strongest arguments to our Member's Witness Statements, it leaves insufficient time to be thwarted with their lies etc. And when the motorists defence is good enough to win, it should win regardless of when it is first produced.   
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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

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Not really,

 

look how many crimes no longer attract a prison sentence

 

And crime figures are dropping despite the level of sanctions rising.

 

Work houses coming soon in 2016

Well the crime figures are probably wrong as cameron cuts has seen the number of police on the streets reduced , and add to that people lack of faith in the police , On a local theme the area i live in has a lot more crime now than it used to have 5yrs ago, a lot more robberies and other serious crimes making the local news web sites

This government wouldn't want the truth out there would it ?

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The problem with posting a link such as you have done, is that it includes a session ID that is unique to the time you (tried to) log in. A much better way is to take a screen-shot and post that instead.

 

You should also do a printout of the page for your job search diary. If/when you get challenged by the JCP about your job search activity, you can then produce the printout as evidence to show that UJM was suffering "technical problems".

 

As a side note, I always have problems with UJM, but that is because I refuse cookies from the web site :wink:

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Hi all, I took part in a 7 day course recently which I started on Monday 7 September and finished on Tuesday 15 September., however as I was due to sign on on the 7th I was excused from the job centre.

 

Also as I never received a letter to notify me of my appointment today, I had to contact them last week.

 

When I went today I didn't see my normal advisor and saw someone else but as I had to claim travel expenses to the course they completed the form for me but they never got me to sign my declarations.

 

I'm now worried that I will receive a letter in post to say that I never attended today.

 

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If you're worried that they didn't update their system to note your attendance today, you could call the Benefit Centre (or the Jobcentre itself) tomorrow and ask if your signing evidence has been updated. It should only take them a moment to check this on the computer.

 

Should there be any issue, the fact that you completed a travel expense claim should provide evidence that you did attend.

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I know I don't post on here very often, but as I don't want to end up getting sanctioned for not looking for a job on a Christmas Day and boxing day. I was just wondering if anyone else has spent time looking for jobs over the last two days?

 

I record my job search on the Universal jobmatch website on a daily basis and I don't see my advisor until Monday 11 Jan 2016.

 

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I record my job search on the Universal jobmatch website on a daily basis [...]

 

I can't comment about job searches over a holiday period. I suspect the DWP would try to impose a sanction for any daily activity that had not been completed during a public holiday.

 

That said, do yourself a favour and keep a written record of your job search. If there is a technical glitch in the UJM or the servers fail, you will lose your record and then run the risk of having to fight a sanction. With a paper record, you are not reliant on a third party system being 100% foolproof.

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The last time I was a JSA claimant my adviser specifically told me that she did not expect me to look for jobs on Xmas day. I would like to see all advisers do this, but, since they don't, I have to go with the "Safety First" approach and suggest that you do find something to put in your jobsearch records for Xmas day. I would also love to see what a Tribunal would make of a case where someone appealed a sanction under these circumstances. It would be extremely interesting, but I can't (in all good conscience) advise anyone to make themselves that test case.

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they just ask you a few questions about you to see if your circumstances are still the same or have changed.

 

 

nothing untoward to worry about

its a random thing they do

 

 

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

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are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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It's probably nothing to worry about. The Compliance people conduct checks on benefit claimants, mainly to ensure that they're getting the correct amount. People are sometimes asked to show bank statements or other documents, although obviously that's not possible over the phone. They may ask you questions about your household - who lives there, whether any of them claim any benefits and so on. They may also ask you to confirm that you have not done any paid work that you haven't told them about, or they may ask about any other money you have: savings etc.

 

These interviews are sometimes triggered by what's called "data matching", where information held by different government departments (for example, HMRC) is cross checked with the records held by the DWP and any possible discrepancies are checked out. There's also the slight possibility that someone has reported you for fraud, but I wouldn't worry about that: if the DWP really thought you had committed fraud it would not be the Compliance team that would be dealing with it. The DWP is used to receiving malicious and fatuous fraud allegations.

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I was due to have my telephone compliance interview today from the dwp but as I had to sign on at my local job centre and also attend the work programme I re-arranged it for a different time. However, I have left several messages for them to ring me back but I'm worried that my money will be stopped because I was unavailable.

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