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morningstarMorning.Star 08/08/2019 at 22:207 Comments

Yep. Arun District Council.

The same jokers who owe me £14000 and are still refusing to listen to their own regulations.

Their latest ruse of not turning up to the steering meeting to discuss why they are not paying full Housing Benefit revealed their stupidity. Instead they called the agent off the record and informed them that Bea isnt getting High Rate Care component of her Disability benefits. Well, she was, so by that they just admitted to owing me £10,000 for 14 of the 19 years I overpaid, if she isnt entitled to the last 5 with the change in benefits.

Thats because Social Services attempted to institutionalise her, taking control of her benefits [or trying to unsuccessfully] and screwed them up. And now they have to re-instate them and inform the Council of their error so they can backdate the housing benefit and pay the agent before he evicts us. Igor was at pains to prevent the agent from doing that...

Well, when the agent actually threatened that in front of Igor, he responded by admitting to them being engaged unofficially by Arun District Council to separate Bea and I, take control of her affairs and push me onto the streets in debt - for which they have apologised profusely and are doing everything they can to resolve the situation without the attention of the law.

Badly, I might add.

So, I contracted a carer myself, a national agency by the name of Bluebird, who did all the preliminary and set up - I even met two of the carers. It was to be funded through the independent agency like before, as the care was more expensive than Social Services would fund. However, they are so desperate to retain what little control they have, they pushed it up to the ops Manager for the county to sign off on, and she did.

Unfortunately, this somewhat unofficial act got the attention of the agency's head office, who re-issued their edict of not working with Social Services, and pulled out. Since then every agency I contact mysteriously pulls out as Social Services slanders me to them. I've caught them out already on this by getting to the carers before they do, but as they control the application process there's little I can do.

This is of course all illegal, but I'm also denied Legal Aid to get this to court, so we are at impasse.

Not for long, as the District Council have given me free access to our legal system, and all I had to do is not pay them. Hah... Try that on for size... Council Tax has to be paid, and I'll pay it off in instalments when the magistrate tells me to. And he will.

But before he does he has to sit and listen to my story.

And being a Officer of the Law he is duty bound to investigate all breaches of it.

So, effectively all its cost me is just under £100 in court fees and I'm guaranteed a hearing in weeks, instead of fronting thousands in the hope of ever getting my case heard. Could have been years.

I'd have to have paid the £130 in Tax anyway so I havent lost that, it was already gone. Its just court fees to pay and my credit rating will be affected. Like I care, borrowing money for anything is pretty dumb right.

Several Trillion National Debt, anyone? Pfffft...

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Morning.Star wrote 08/09/2019 at 12:03 point

This is what I need, and it will cost very little - a one-off payment to a solicitor to prepare the document, maybe an hour of his/her time. This will be under £100 and worth doing. I couldnt remember the term for it...

From Wikipedia

An affidavit  AF-i-DAY-vit; Medieval Latin for he has declared under oath) is a written sworn statement of fact voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation administered by a person authorized to do so by law. Such statement is witnessed as to the authenticity of the affiant's signature by a taker of oaths, such as a notary public or commissioner of oaths. An affidavit is a type of verified statement or showing, or in other words, it contains a verification, meaning it is under oath or penalty of perjury, and this serves as evidence to its veracity and is required for court proceedings.


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salec wrote 08/09/2019 at 05:29 point

IANAL, so take the following with a lot of salt.

Officers of the law are not duty bound to investigate *all* breaches of it. The law explicitly declares which deeds are to be investigated by officers of the law as their duty, e.g. crimes against life, body, or taking (or destroying) something sufficiently valuable (minimal price written in law) from someone without their consent, by someone less important then their victim, as opposed to regulations which grant certain rights to plaintiffs who are able and willing to litigate. 

In other words, what clearly or very probably has mens rea involved will be acted upon promptly and without a need that victim pleads. The rest will be resolved only if there is a plaintiff explicitly demanding it. 

It is not clear that Mrs Moss acted against you just because she hates you or something, or was just stupid or misguided by her poor judgement (but I repeat myself).

Certainly you noticed that there was a police officer acquainted with your case, but no criminal investigation against Council ensued. If Magistrate should propel your case into a criminal system, so should have the constable had.

The Magistrate will probably rule that you pay, because you are not at the moment actively litigating Council for what it owes you, which is as if they don't owe you, in legal sense (unlike the Council, regarding the 130 quid, to court you seem OK with the five figures they should be gathering to give back to you, because you are still not demanding them).

In law apparently there is a lot playing stupid and hard on ears. You may find yourself feeling like dragging your feet through mud. You are long overdue finding a legal representation for yourself. Since they (the Council) are keeping you in a potential energy well, you need to tunnel out, to find help from outside, publicity and sponsors to finance your lawyer and expenses.

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Morning.Star wrote 08/09/2019 at 06:30 point

Heh.

There is civil law and criminal law, and criminal laws fall under the police and then a judge; civil laws fall under a magistrate. As the police patiently explained to me, they dont involve themselves in civil proceedings, unless they become uncivil lol, and then they become peacekeepers.

This is a civil matter - it isnt a theft, its fraud, and there are no procedures to cover fraud by a government agency. Perish the thought that an official ever behaves like a human being. On top of that, it was a genuine mistake for 14 years and has only become fraudulent by the complicit nature of their actions when they realised. They attempted to destroy me, and dragged the County Council, Social Services and now a private housing agency into the mix.

Here I am, still, on the advice of a doctor who can overrule them all with a statement written for the magistrate. I'm observing the letter of the law, and have broken none - non-payment of a local tax is a civil offence, hence being dragged in front of one and not a judge...

This is after all, a bonus round. The fallout from the papers will have far more reaching impact as I become famous for this as well. ;-)

I'll pay my taxes. When they stop enslaving me... I'm superhuman, I should not have to grot on my knees in blood, piss and shit unpaid, for my bread, water and shelter under threat of homelessness and starvation even if I were human. Nor should local council members convene to defraud a member of the public, but thats obvious.

A magistrate will not allow this to continue, and that is my goal...

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salec wrote 08/09/2019 at 06:54 point

I have no faith in magistrate courts, the very idea behind establishing them was IMHO distortion and pretence of justice. I don't think magistrate court is synonymous to civil court, seeking the right balance between the sides. To the countrary, magistrate courts are "presumption of guilt" (aka Kangaroo), speedy courts, to additionally punish the stubborn or rebellious, usually for governmental or paragovernmental monopolies. So, the Council is dragging you in front of their trusty ally.

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Morning.Star wrote 08/09/2019 at 07:50 point

Oh, agreed. ;-)

I do after all owe them tax, they are making me pay it using their procedures. The whole point of this IS the rebellion, I'm taking that to the next level in the papers which should get me the attention I need.

Like I said, bonus round. They cant hurt me, I cant hurt them, but this establishes political boundaries that they may not cross.

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Dr. Cockroach wrote 08/09/2019 at 00:01 point

So in a round about way, you achieved legal aid by their own bumbling ;-)

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Morning.Star wrote 08/09/2019 at 04:33 point

Yeah, IKR. Truly delusional.

Arun District Council told Social Services that they wouldnt pay up becasue Bea isnt on the High Rate Care component, and phoned me up and laughed at me.

Yes, Mrs Moss of the Council. You are named and shamed unlike Igor and Hench, who are doing their [repellent] jobs badly enough to warrant the attention of their bosses. You on the other hand are a lying thief with a broken moral compass, and that is your job. Round of applause my dear, I hope you feel so righteous. Because Bea WAS on the high rate component before you interfered and took away her entitlement. And if she is NOT entitled now, then she WAS before. Its mutually exclusive, you see, and you cant argue with Boolean Logic. 

They can twist, but in the end all they will achieve is proving they owe me £10,366 for the 14 years they admit I overpaid by proving she isnt entitled now or for the last 5 years.

I dont know how to read this, I dont understand delusional behaviour. But to the casual observer I guess it looks like they are saving themselves 4 grand and letting the Social take the worst of the heat the magistrate can dish out. Not much as it happens, the magistrate can order them to pay me up but no more - Jurisprudence actually means very little unless I can then get a court case. But when an officer of the law orders me to pursue justice outside of his jurisdiction, well, he also has to enable me.

This is vindication on a personal level, and my moolah back - well, most of it - but it wont affect the Council's behaviour at all.

Thats what the papers are for. ;-)

* Last time this happened [kind of] they took away MY entitlement, and I wound up in front of a magistrate. Bang went the gavel, and because of their lies I had to pay back the carer benefits they didnt pay me while Bea was illegally in care. However under the circumstances, he ordered me to follow the instructions of my doctor.

There is no higher authority. A doctor can tell a king, a captain or a judge what to do...

Well, mine told me to get my daughter out of care and take over the world with my robots, and here we are. Well, I have questioned my sanity many times, so I tested it by going back and telling what has become a team of psychiatrists 'Done. And done. Whats next?'

They shrugged. What did I want, justice? Recognition in this crudhole country? I'd have to get it myself because nobody will help me now.

I'll prepare a precis for the court, damn.

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