Response to The Ombudsmen - Human Rights Act and Tribunals

This is extremely worrying. On the one hand, the Ombudsmen are admitting to a parliamentary committee that the Human Rights Act does of course make differences to people's exercising of their rights (in this case, their right to tribunal hearings rather than merely to decisions-by-post); but on the other hand the Ombudsmen are working on ways to keep things exactly as they were before the HRA. came into effect The evidence of this in practice is the letters the various Ombudsmen's offices are currently sending out saying that the Ombudsmen (as opposed to the provisions of Law) still determine who does and does not get a tribunal hearing. So nothing has changed - despite the fundamental freedoms and rights guaranteed by the Human Rights Act. Does anyone smell a rat? I wonder if it can anything to do with the fact that, say, the Banking Ombudsman Office is a company whose directors work in the banking sector? But surely not. Smack my wrist for being cynical.

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