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      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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Update on this case for those that have followed it. The fella from work has withdrawn his statements and is refusing to appear in court. Now the solicitor is having a meeting at the court before the case on the 30th to see if they can get the case thrown out as the dwp based the whole case on this one person from work. We have mountains of medical support so the solicitor is very confident my son will not even have to stand in court now.

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Wishing the best for your son and I hope that the person who has caused this gets kick in the butt for wasting time, costing money, and above all stressing out your son and yourself.......their ignorance is no excuse.

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Wishing the best for your son and I hope that the person who has caused this gets kick in the butt for wasting time, costing money, and above all stressing out your son and yourself.......their ignorance is no excuse.

 

I wonder if they can be reported to the police for harassment?

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I wish so, but I think the law/cost around harassment issues isn't easy to implement. But if this has cost a lot of public money to end up a farce, then something should be done, but unfortunately it probably wont, would be good to see though for once instead of ignorant and or nasty people getting away with it.

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Well I have just had the best news ever, the solicitor has phoned us as she has been in meetings with the cps all morning and the case has been withdrawn. The cps said that he should never have had to go through this after they looked at the defence from doctors. This was done in advance of the trial on Tuesday as it came to light that the dwp had withheld the defence evidence from the cps, so the only reason they had actually decided to prosecute was they thought there was hardly evidence to back up what my son was telling them. The cps were furious with the dwp and the solicitor said she has put in a claim to the courts so he will get some money back in around two months. Just the appeal now but nothing could spoil my day after this. Thankyou all that were there listening and supporting us.

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To be honest, and I work as a fraud investigator, I cant believe that whoever dealt with this case took it forward on the word of one person who your son worked with without any other evidence to confirm what that one person said.

 

In my opinion it puts us investigators in a very bad light when the majority spend there working life trying to be professional, fair and empathetic. Well, I do and I like to think that most others do as well.

 

I have no need to try to prove that someone is being fraudulent when they haven't.

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In my opinion it puts us investigators in a very bad light when the majority spend there working life trying to be professional, fair and empathetic. Well, I do and I like to think that most others do as well.

 

Agreed.

 

This case has been very odd from the start with what appeared to be a fishing IUC with no evidence. Amazingly a solicitor allowed this to go ahead. But then it turned out to be an IUC with video evidence from a possible CHIS & one witness statement from a work colleague. Somehow that ended up with a DLA disallowance & then got to court only for the CPS solicitors to mess up straight away by not understanding the DLA rules. Before finally been thrown out because evidence was withheld.

 

There must be more to it than that.

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Agreed.

 

This case has been very odd from the start with what appeared to be a fishing IUC with no evidence. Amazingly a solicitor allowed this to go ahead. But then it turned out to be an IUC with video evidence from a possible CHIS & one witness statement from a work colleague. Somehow that ended up with a DLA disallowance & then got to court only for the CPS solicitors to mess up straight away by not understanding the DLA rules. Before finally been thrown out because evidence was withheld.

 

There must be more to it than that.

 

 

Yes I think there must be - I have no idea how the DLA DM reached a decision on the stated evidence alone.

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Yes I think there must be - I have no idea how the DLA DM reached a decision on the stated evidence alone.

 

In my experience, sometimes a 'bad' senior decision maker can get fixated on 'getting' a particular claimant. The why's of it escape me and luckily it's rare - it's unusual for it to make it to court though, as someone else will look at the case and bring some sanity to the situation. I've had a few go to to appeal though, with 'tactics' like you wouldn't believe.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office ~ Aesop

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We are just pleased its all over apart from the appeal but, I would never have believed they would have put my son and the rest of us through all of this. We had our first decent nights sleep in a long time last night. I personally believe that some of the decision makers should have some medical knowledge and understand some of these more rare conditions. It became nothing more than a witch hunt and my sons health went rapidly down hill because of it. Thankfully we have a great gp and specialists that look after him. Thanks to everyone that has wished us well.

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