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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.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

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      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
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      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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Hi,

 

 

I have googled this and am confused. I hope I am posting in the right place.

 

 

My husband has been seriously ill for several years. He currently receives ESA and DLA. I get carers allowance for looking after him and IS as a top up payment.

 

 

Recently I have started to get health problems. I cant find a way of finding out whether I can claim ESA or DLA as well as my husband. If I do claim benefit will we lose our carers allowance and IS?

 

 

I don't want to poke a wasps nest and end up worse off than we are now.

 

 

If anyone has any advice it would be appreciated.

 

 

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You can claim PIP, which is the replacement for DLA, on your own behalf. If you look in the stickies for this forum you'll find links to how to claim etc.

 

You would almost certainly be no better off by claiming ESA based on your own health as you're unlikely to meet the contribution conditions to get contributory ESA if you've been caring for your husband for a while, and income based ESA would most likely not increase your total income plus you would have to jump through all the hoops. It may be worth using one of the online benefit checkers and/or asking an experienced welfare workder to calculate if you would be better off, just in case.

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I know of a couple who both get DLA and apparently each get carers allowance for looking after the other-this is only 2nd hand info so I do not know if it is true

 

http://www.entitledto.co.uk/ is a good calculator , or so I have found. Turn2us is another good organisation that helps people determine entitlement

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