Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

Change the law: enforce disabled people’s priority on buses

Despite our partial victory in the Supreme Court against Firstbus, disabled people are still being refused access to buses where the wheelchair space is occupied by non-disabled people. The Supreme Court justices recommended Parliament reconsider the legislation. Let’s ask the Government to do so. Please sign and share the petition on Parliament’s website to ask them to change the law. Thank you!  

The ICO shouldn’t decide what a S50 assessment is about

Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act gives requesters the right to ask the Information Commissioner to decide if a public authority’s handling of the requester’s Freedom of Information Request is in compliance with the Act. Application for decision by Commissioner. (1)Any person (in this section referred to as “the complainant”) may apply to…

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Bus driver still not asking pushchair users to shift…

The basis of the Firstbus case was that the bus company must do more than get their drivers to just ask pushchair users to vacate the wheelchair space. All sides agreed from the very start that the bus driver must at least ask the non-disabled person(s) occupying the wheelchair space to make way for a…

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