tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660045811631095081.post5013009092797061826..comments2023-03-19T13:42:19.502+00:00Comments on PPlog: Trust. I wouldn't trust them with a beanbag.PPLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16701123641471735958noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660045811631095081.post-38224490527189121802007-12-27T10:35:00.000+00:002007-12-27T10:35:00.000+00:00I wonder how many lawyers are prepared to take on ...I wonder how many lawyers are prepared to take on cases bought to them by people with mental illness.<BR/><BR/>Are there lawyers who actually specialise in disability?<BR/><BR/>I think there should be but should be doesn't mean there are.<BR/><BR/>Good luck finding one Des and if I hear of a good disability lawyer will pass details on.Made by Mandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03564617028405217550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660045811631095081.post-31170531026030146602007-12-03T14:00:00.000+00:002007-12-03T14:00:00.000+00:00Thanks for posting this.I should just add here tha...Thanks for posting this.<BR/><BR/>I should just add here that the Lewisham PCT failed to meet the Equality, Diversity and Human Rights assessment carried out by the Healthcare Commission and that I have now been informed I cannot talk to anyone involved on the Commissioning side at the PCT because I have made a complaint.<BR/><BR/>In other words, I am now effectively excluded from meaningful consideration as someone my PCT commissions services for.<BR/><BR/>The Healthcare Commission is supposed to monitor how complainants are treated. thats clearly not being done here as they also view me as the problem for bringing the matter to them as a disability discrimination issue they have no mechanisms for acknowledging let alone dealing with.<BR/><BR/>The real irony is the staff member whose professional misconduct at the MH gym and local resolution meeting prevented me from using the gym service has received advice and support from my Trust for the last 4 months. <BR/><BR/>My formal complaint against him, made once I realised I was being viewed as the problem, has not been formally acknowledged and as far as I am aware no complaints have been made about my conduct, I am just expected to accept I cant use a local service I was referred to because I raised issues about the person running it.<BR/><BR/>No one has denied that I faced disability discrimination, the system simply has no formal mechanisms to acknowledge it when the allegations are made against them.<BR/><BR/>I am looking for a good disability lawyer. Any ideas?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com