From the Barnet Alliance For Public Services:
Join us for the appeal hearing to keep fighting Barnet Council’s mass-outsourcing programme: Monday and Tuesday 15 and 16 July, 9:30 for 10am start, at the High Court, The Strand.
Please support Maria Nash, who is fighting a legal battle for us all, to stop the undemocratic privatisation of Barnet by Crapita. Your council could be next! And probably will be at this rate.
For more information and to offer your support, see: http://barnetalliance.org/
The Appeal on Monday is listed before The Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Davis and Lady Justice Gloster at 10:30am in court 71.
Background
On 7 May, lawyers acting on behalf of Maria Nash lodged an appeal against the refusal to allow a judicial review of the One Barnet programme. The One Barnet programme is a widely-discredited Barnet council plan to privatise council services. Major contracts have already been handed to Capita. The refusal to allow the judicial review was made on the technical grounds that the request for a judicial review was brought out of time.
The court has issued the appeal and it has been served to Barnet Council’s lawyers, to Capita and to the other parties.
The legal team is confident that the grounds for the appeal are promising. The appeal is based on the substantial endorsement of Judge Underhill of Maria Nash’s argument that Barnet Council had failed to consult residents about a fundamental change to the way Council services are delivered and governed, under the One Barnet outsourcing programme. Maria Nash was granted legal aid for the appeal and she is now waiting for a hearing date from the Court of Appeal.
The legal team will challenge the judge’s ruling on delay, arguing that he has not followed a House of Lords ruling on what is meant by a “final decision”.
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What can I say things like these have been done in education so if I’m understanding this and it goes ahead capita councils atos nhs to find years on it doesn’t work and just supports that this country is well and truly sold down the river I’m all for a better place and I’m glad I won’t be around to see the complete destruction of a country that once was the envy of the world in fact at 16 sitting in a pub with my mates half pint of lager and lime in hand I stated you wait when we in our fiftys we will think we are the bees knees we will have credit have all followed by poverty armed police on the streets rioting children hungry walking about eating hunks of bread people being nasty to each other then we get power and money crazy corrupt people in authority how fekin right was I my friends said brig you a nutter no way I’ve every respect for any who challenge something they know is wrong so good luck and well done power to you for having the balls maybe if more did life would be better its not rocket science all this here we go round the mulberry bush what’s needed is honesty instead of brush it under the carpet in what a believe is a corrupt society