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Archive for February, 2009
Does anyone use…
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Handy rule of the day!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the LSC manual, Volume 2, re cost assessment
2.6 However, practitioners cannot be expected to be ‘walking law libraries’ (Johnson v. Valks. Court of Appeal 15 March 2000) and it may still be reasonable for time for checking on the application of established law or procedural rules to individual circumstances to be claimed, provided the reasons [...]
I wouldn’t want them as my neighbour but…
Posted in Random stuff on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House must confess that he takes rather guilty pleasure in reading witness statements in anti social behaviour cases.
‘Tenant making loud noise. Sounded like moving furniture’.
‘Tenant making D.I.Y type noises’
‘Tenant listening to (insert pop artist here) repeatedly at high volumes’
These are just a few from memory. Now House wouldn’t want many of his clients living next to [...]
Erk
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘I’d like your organisation to take on my case as I think my solicitor isn’t helping me properly because their organisation receives funding from the Council that I have a dispute with’…
Erk… well this won’t be a 35 minutes case then
Ideal first appointment time?…
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Is there an optimum time for the first interview with a client?
According to the ‘higher powers’ within House’s organisation that time is 45 minutes. House (unsurprisingly) wonders at this.
House has always rather seen clients on a case by case basis. Some cases require not much more than 30 minutes but others, in fact the majority House finds, will take longer [...]
Shelter – More redundancies
Posted in Random stuff on February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It appears that Shelter are to make more staff redundant having found a £2.2 million hole in their budget. Quite a large hole one thinks.
On top of the strikes and two rounds of redundancies one imagines the staff at Shelter can’t be happy bunnies. Any further info welcome from those in the know!
Dilema plus one
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
House’s job sure is firing out the dilemas (is dilema one m or two?!) it seems. House has now been told to go into a closed exceptional case (thatis about to be sent off to the LSC), pretend to be the previous caseworker and write notes justifying the time claimed as if I was that caseworker.
House can’t seem to [...]
Call me cynical but…
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
These passages are taken from the Homelessness Strategy of Local Authority who informed one of my team that they ‘don’t have a homelessness department because they don’t have homeless people in their Borough’.
‘The number of homelessness applications has reduced dramatically in the past 10 years. 145 households made legal homelessness applications between 2003 and 2008, a reduction from 435 in [...]
Uber-chavs?
Posted in Random stuff on February 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
First there were chavs but it appears (according to some) that their offspring are deserving of a new title UBER CHAVS.
One hopes that Mr Surman’s report leads to some constructive debate on the topic of social exclusion etc. Heh one can hope.
LSC and techno cretins at it again…
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For any provider who has had a letter from the LSC telling you that your past submissions need reconcilling with their new submission system please have a look HERE.
I personally think there needs to be a concerted effort in enquiring as to why a huge amount of time and effort should be spent on something [...]
