12th May 2014 [Blog No. 53]
Hello again, it’s me, Peggy
On
Saturday last (10/5/2014) we met with the Rt. Hon Sir Kevin J Barron MP for an
update on the PHSO situation. See copy of my letter dated 10 May 2014 to Mr
Barron copied below.
Mr
Barron said that the Health Service Ombudsman had contacted him about my
situation and saying that they had not received any letter from Daniel Poulter
MP.
Mr
Barron said at our meeting on Saturday last that Mr Poulter MP had sent a
letter to him saying he had copied same to the PHSO and he had hoped that the
PHSO would look at the matter again but the PHSO had confirmed to Mr Barron that
they have not received that letter and had asked Mr Barron to send them a copy
and then they would reply. No surprise there then I says.
Mr
Barron did say on Saturday that as far as he could recollect he had not yet
received any response from the Health Service Ombudsman as yet.
You
can see from the copy of my letter as attached here that with my letter to Mr
Barron MP I had also enclosed a copy of a CD with the sound recording made of
the Defendant Trust’s Medical Expert (Mr Nigel Tubbs, Orthopaedic Surgeon) where
Mr Tubbs can be heard confirming that the calcification (bony lesion) could be
seen in the Bassetlaw Hospital x-rays dated 19/08/91, and the fact I had put
this sound recording on my last blog, blog No. 52 dated 4/5/2014.
A
copy of the sound recording made of the meeting with Mr Tubbs was filed and
re-played in the Sheffield Court on appeal but when the Defendants solicitor
Mikaler Cutts (Browne Jacobson Solicitors of Nottingham) shook her head
vigorously the judge decided not to consider the contents therein.
Them
at the Bassetlaw Hospital and their instructed solicitors had always fervently denied
this fact, and had vigorously lied throughout, in their attempt to cover the
backs of the medics.
Another obstacle I
found myself facing in year 1999 and 2000 was with solicitors, judges and the
courts;
Back
in November 1999 Mr Tim Slow of Gosschalks solicitors of Hull had agreed to
accept instruction on my case against the Bassetlaw Hospital & Community
Services NHS Trust, which had been brought before the Worksop County Court back
in 1998 under claim number WS 802466. He wrote to the Legal Aid Board and
obtained a full certificate to act on my case.
Mr Slow was in receipt of the full Legal
Aid Certificate but
instead of him attending and representing me in the appeal hearing in the
Lincoln Court on 20/12/1999, under Claim No. WS802466, he simply refused to
attend. I had to represent myself in Court where and when His Hon Judge Inglis
threw out my case and I had to appeal his decision via the Appeal courts in
London on April 6th 2000. The Judge had said there was a problem with the date of Limitation
in my case but said he was not at liberty to say what that was. I was given
incorrect information by the court as to which court I should appeal my case,
and this had resulted in my having to make further applications to the appeal
court in London once I discovered the RCJ in London to be the correct court of
appeal.
At a
meeting with Mr Slow in late January 2000 he was informed by me of how I had also
protected a claim against the Suffolk Health Authority myself, and he agreed to
handle that case and to apply for extension of time in which to serve proceedings
and apply for Legal Aid cover on it.
Mr Slow had applied to the Worksop
County Court on 21/1/00 for an extension to the time in which to serve
proceedings. He made the application for the Bassetlaw case under Claim No.
WS802466 and the Suffolk Claim under WS901336. He attended a hearing in the
Worksop County Court on 11/2/00 where apparently only he and the judge were present.
On 25/2/00 at a court hearing when my
husband and I, Mr Slow and Bassetlaw Trust's solicitor were present, District
judge Hickinbottom refused to continue until such time he had made it very
clear to both mine and also the defendant's solicitor that the Bassetlaw
Hospital claim number being extended was that of WS 802466. He said it was
being extended to allow the main body of the case to proceed, and both Mr Slow
and the Defendant's solicitor agreed with him.
District
judge Hickinbottom went ahead on 25/2/2000 and ordered that the request for an
extension of time to serve particulars of claim under Worksop County Court
Claim No. WS802466 be granted.
However,
shortly after that hearing my own solicitor (Tim Slow) wrote the court advising
that the wrong claim number had been allocated to the case on that date and the
court went ahead and amended the order that had been issues by the court pursuant
to Rule 40.12 CPR (known as Slip-Rule 15) to amend the Claim number from
WS802446 to WS901318. The Judge did this after he’d had had both solicitors
agree with him at the hearing on 24/2/2000 that the claim number being heard
was indeed WS802466. Crooked or what???????????
I subsequently appealed the order
made by His Hon Judge Inglis on 20/12/99 myself because Mr Slow insisted that
he was unable to assist. I therefore went on to appeal the order in the Court
of Appeal in London on 06/4/00 without having any legal representation. The
case was heard under Claim No WS802466, and I was refused permission to
appeal. See copy of the Order made by Lord Justice Mantell copied below.
After the hearing I was met outside
the court by a gentleman whom I had seen sat in court, and as it turned out he
was Mr Michael Pringshiem, a solicitor, one well known to the Law Society he
said. He informed me that I had just been stitched up by the judge. He said he did
not have time to discuss the matter at that point but I did eventually meet up with
him on the following August Bank Holiday Monday where and when he reviewed all the
Court Orders. He advised me that neither the solicitors not the Judiciary had
adhered to procedure in my case.
I am also alleging that Mr Slow
refusing to represent my case in the appeal courts in
London was done with intention of
perverting the course of justice in my case.
It was after informing Mr Slow of
the outcome of the appeal hearing in London, and that of my understanding of
the hearing in Worksop County Court on 25/2/00, that he wrote advising me that
he had applied for the extension of time in which to serve proceedings for the Bassetlaw
claim under the wrong claim number. He advised me that he had wrongly used
claim WS802466 instead of WS901318. He did not inform me until after the
initial 14 days had passed in which time I could have insisted he appeal that
particular Order.
However, Mr Slow subsequently went
on, five months later, to make a further application to the Worksop County Court
under WS802466. He informed the
court in his accompanying letter that there were two claims under WS802466 and requested of them that
they return the sealed documents for him to serve on the defendants himself.
This true story continues …….
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