I have just received a message from rightsnet, drawing my attention to their excellent new website, designed to help PIP claimants and their advisers. Continue reading “More about PIPs: The pipinfo website”
Month: September 2016
Personal Independence Payments (PIPs): Help from Law for Life & Citizens Advice
I recently published a blog about the lady I had been able to help with her challenge to a DWP’s decision (on mandatory reconsideration), which denied her the enhanced mobility component of her PIP to which she was entitled. Continue reading “Personal Independence Payments (PIPs): Help from Law for Life & Citizens Advice”
Inheritance tax: a useful infographic
One important feature of the evidence given to the Bach Commission on Access to Justice was the need to develop and use simple applications of modern technology as a tool to help lay people, advice services and law centres to access clear expositions of modern law expressed in terms non-lawyers can readily understand. Continue reading “Inheritance tax: a useful infographic”
Sufficient Resources for the Courts and the Judiciary
Readers of my blogs will have seen my continuing interest in developments of applied I.T. in the court system, and in much greater collaboration between judges, senior court managers and Government in developing affordable judicial services in a time of ever-quickening change. Continue reading “Sufficient Resources for the Courts and the Judiciary”
PIPs: Injustice averted – a real success story
Readers of my blogs will remember that I have expressed great concern about the injustices that are regularly perpetrated by agents of the Department of Work and Pensions Continue reading “PIPs: Injustice averted – a real success story”
IT and the Courts: Treasury inertia for 15 years
The Rt Hon Liz Truss, Lord Chancellor, September 2016:
“We live in a society where you can apply for a mortgage or a job online, you can do your weekly shop from your home, plan holidays, weddings and parties on the internet. It’s high time our courts caught up.” Continue reading “IT and the Courts: Treasury inertia for 15 years”
Stories of Injustice (20)
Readers of these blogs may have noticed that I have not posted anything new for some time. Continue reading “Stories of Injustice (20)”
Henry Brooke 