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Response to Human Rights Act - Update

from Eleanor Scott (eleanor.scott@btinternet.com)
I've just read this and it's very useful. Something else in the Guardian's web archive of interest is the fact that because of the Human Rights Act, everybody is now entitled to have an Ombudsman hear their case in front of a tribunal. The advantage of this is that you get to make sure that the evidence you want to be heard is heard, and you get to hear and challenge the other side's version of events. Up until the HRA was introduced on the 4th Oct, the different Ombudsmen who work for the Financial Ombudsman Service (Banking Ombudsman, etc) tried to keep tribunal cases to a minimum, so that cases could be dealt with 'quickly, easily and fairly informally' (i.e. cheaply). Personally I would much rather go to a formal tribunal than take pot luck with the present system of ombudsman's-assistant's-judgement-by-post. NB This info is contained in an article is by Nessa MacErlean called 'Justice fiinally breaks the wedlock deadlock'. Eleanor Scott.
(posted 8577 days ago)

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