Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Benefits Cuts Street

January 7, 2014

Life on Benefits Cuts  Street  This TV program seemed as if it had been chosen, produced and directed by George Osborne himself. He must also have arranged the scheduling. No sooner had it finished its selective tour of the hard up occupants  of the 99 houses than the chancellor himself pops up demanding  that half the future cuts […]


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Benefits Investigation Advisors

December 13, 2013

Using an unqualified Benefits Investigation Advisor could cost you dear. You are worried about your Benefits Investigation. Be careful not to waste your money and get a poor result by using unqualified Benefits advisors who are currently advertising on the Web. To all extents and purposes their websites look like  law firms. The name sounds like […]


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The Law Society is not acting in the best interests of the majority of Criminal Legal Aid firms

November 19, 2013

Is this the last chance for Criminal legal Aid?  Euphemisms are used to hide the truth by those wishing to protect their interests.  The Law Society Council members are experts in euphemistic management speak. They use it to undermine the criminal law firms and solicitors whose subscriptions keep it in comfortable establishment grandeur.  Let us […]


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Housing Fraud Act 2013 subletting is now a crime.

October 24, 2013

Housing fraud  act may make criminals out of sub-tenants The government claim that as of 2012 there were some 100,000 Council and Housing Association properties that were unlawfully sublet. There is an acute housing shortage. Many tenants may have been pushed into accommodation which, because of the new law,  could lead to criminal  charges. The […]


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Will the slashing cuts to Legal Aid lead to miscarriages of justice?

October 17, 2013

Grayling angers the committee over Legal Aid   Justice Secretary Chris Grayling appeared before the House of Commons justice select committee yesterday, where he faced a grilling from MPs over the government’s criminal and civil legal aid reforms.  To the obvious annoyance of both Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn and Plaid Cymru’s Elfyn Llwyd, who is a barrister, Grayling […]


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Martha Moss asks “Is the Bedroom Tax fair”?

October 8, 2013

Bedroom Tax It has spawned court appeals from disabled people and prompted human rights concerns from the UN. Labour has promised to reform it, 59 per cent of the public want it scrapped and the Liberal Democrats are growing increasingly uncomfortable with it. The infamous ‘bedroom tax’ – which came into force in April will […]


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Benefit fraud, the long arm of the law.

October 1, 2013

Benefit Fraud Investigators use databases Benefit fraud takes many forms from failure to disclose a few pounds earned whilst in receipt of income based benefits such as Income Support, Housing Benefit or Council Tax  to claimants who have tens of thousands of pounds sitting in deposit accounts in their name. Our earlier blog discussed the […]


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Landlords beware- even registered deposits can bite back

September 23, 2013

In a recent case, a landlord decided they wanted their property back on the expiry of an assured short hold tenancy. They issued possession proceedings under the accelerated procedure. A £600 deposit, which had been placed in an approved deposit protection scheme, had been paid at the start of the tenancy. The schedule of the […]


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Why medical evidence is essential to win your ESA or DLA appeal

September 13, 2013

Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is awarded when claimants have medical problems that prevent them from being able to work. Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is granted when claimants need extra financial support to help deal with a disability. Almost all refusals of these benefits arise from a ‘medical assessor’ finding, following a short interview with […]


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