Author: Doug Paulley

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

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…

Data controllers’ compliance with Section 10 notices: the ICO now assess.

I’ve written previously about the Information Commissioner’s assessment of organisations’ compliance with S10 notices. S10 is a mechanism by which a data subject can force a data controller to stop processing his/her personal data, or stop it from processing in a certain way, where such processing is causing substantial, unwarranted damage or distress. Previously the…

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