Author: Doug Paulley

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

We Won the case against Firstbus

The Supreme Court judgment in “Paulley vs FirstGroup” has been handed down this morning. I am not a lawyer and the following is my interpretation of 92 pages of judgment having had just a few hours to read it! I make no warranty that it is legally correct. You should form your own view and…

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Supreme Court judgment: Paulley vs Firstbus

The judgment in FirstGroup PLC vs Paulley, about: The reasonable adjustments which a bus company is required to make to accommodate disabled wheelchair users. has been written and will be handed down on Wednesday, January 18th 2016 at 09:45am GMT in Supreme Court courtroom 1. A 5-minute summary will be read out in Court. This will be…

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“Have you got a problem? I won’t stop for you next time!”

Bus drivers in London often ignore wheelchair users’ requests to get off, driving off with them on board, on a regular basis – over 50 times to Chris alone, as put to TFL’s manager on ITV News. Today, after ignoring Chris’s request to get off, the driver had a parting message for him…