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If you were to pm I would give you the email address of someone who is actively involved in the fight to have DLA + here in France. It was a very complex issue (even for me and in the law) and it is not strictly true that it is capable of export. There are conditions. Meanwhile my wife has suffered from RA for over 32 years. She takes steroids but Humira is a drug she has been taking for some time and it really has helped. Perhaps you should talk to your Dr about it?

Slippery Sam the cap does not fit

This is not intended to be a law lecture but if AndyPandy just simply looks up mens rea then he has the answer. If your mind is telling you hi I can get around this system and benefit (however you define benefit) then it is fraud and illegal. Andy it is simply that. Forget about other issues forget about where you are living you are on the slipperly slope. I seem to remember another contentious posting by someone in the past and which brought let us say some to the point comments. I feel sure it was not AndyPandy

It is my birthday soon and no folks not giving away my age for I am feeling much older having seen lots from the DWP people who seriously are getting up my nose. If a someone erred in law be it a private individual a group a company of HMG and then one appealed and the Tribunal ruled against you and then the law was finally confirmed as being plain simple wrong then the Tribunal in my book cannot duplicate a wrong. Everything that flows from this should in my opinion be set aside. English Common law for centuries has always tried to put people back in the position they were before the wrong took place. Thus if someone moved say in 2001 or 2002 or whenever then in my opinion the law as it now stands should take the claimant back to that time. I am trying to draft a document for the lawyers in London and my apologies for the slight delay but I have lots on at the moment and to think I am retired. However they say a lawyer always dies in harness. I hope not too soon! rdgs

Dear Benjamin my reading of the response is to say that DLA et al is exportable and the UK is the competent state etc etc. However I suggest that it is that these benefits 'may' be exportable and I read this as though one must have already had an award. After what I am now seeing elsewhere I am beginning to think that we should all set up a camp at Folkestone stay there for 26 weeks get the benefits allocated and then come back here to France. Benjamin we too are in the South Vendee and the weather is good is it not?

Paul as someone who has been in the law for some considerable time the problems in the system are in the main brought about by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Police. It may amaze you but the CPS normally charge high and then when we get in front of the judge attempt to do a deal especially when the evidence is rubbish. My advice always to clients is not to do a deal. If you are not guilty then stand up and fight but as many clients have told me I do not have to do the time. Finally our system is based upon the Jury system and please believe me some strange decisions have come out as in Ken Dodd and where it was argued M'Lord my client has never trusted banks. He was found not guilty and the following day went to the tax office to pay his debts.

Hi Hereford I did not hear the broadcast and thus cannot comment. However as a Lawyer I can tell you that I have used everything that I have in my power to argue Law with the DWP it has got us now where and essentially this is since 2007. I am now and through a practising Barrister colleague of mine trying to get a Judicial Review of the DWP and this on a pro bono basis for whilst I hear what you say money is a problem! You will not appreciate and nor should you how frustrating all of this is.

People have recommended St Palais sur Mer and a place run by an English couple its in the red guide. something like Lamaisonsurmer or something like that. this time of the year for B and B its about 90 euros.

Yes I agree with your views on this. Politics with both a small and a big P are in being here of that I am certain. All we are asking is for one Tribunal and then they will have to disclose their arguments and some days before the hearing so we will see what they have to say. My problem is how to bring about a Tribunal? With Tina we have tried all sorts of ways including quoting an up to date Court of Appeal case and where the word used was immediate by a Judge in a lower court and speedily in the Court of Appeal. We have written so many times to Kettle that I am now running out of ideas as to how to hit them and let us have a Tribunal. Tina and I are also working on something else at this moment in time and I am sure she will post the information a bit later today. Be careful to go to the Ombudsman or the like you have to have exhausted the Complaints procedure within the DWP. So which way do you think a complaint is to go for if they investigate themselves we have no chance. In one of the letters that Tina has received the guy (idiot) said they cannot intervene in a DM decision and the only appeal function is a Tribunal or other areas of the law. Exactly give us the Tribunal and I will give you the law and indeed perhaps even a Judicial Review. In my business sensible logical arguments are called for. I am now on the point of becoming hostile but that is not good for anyone. We have to keep our feet on the ground be sensible polite despite everything that is going on around us. I would not suggest you follow some of the rhetoric that I have seen from Spain it will not get you anywhere. take care

Every Govt depart must have a complaints procedure? Does Blackpool but even then it must be like a stick of rock long and hard to get your teeth into. rdgs

I forgot something the Police the Bar Council and lots of others now have their own independent review bodies and if we believe what we are being told Parliament will do so as well. Again Solicitors have their own review body in Leamington. So how please do we allow the DM to review their own decisions? If they are so sure of their position they have made a decision then stick by it and go to Tribunal otherwise you end up like the MP for Salford.

This is like a game of poker wiith lots of bluff. Are we saying that simply by going to an appeal as against asking the DM to review his or her decision that things just sit there. Here just a question if you were a DM and someone says to you review your decision what would you as a so called human being (the DM's that is) do it would take someone with lots of undercarriage to say I got that wrong! That is what appeals Tribunals Courts of Appeal are for to put right the DM's of this world.

our original purchase here in France was at 1.675 and that was in 2001 and I thought I was mad at the time.

I have read both the NI and the UK DM guide and they differ. I had thought to be able to compare and contrast but unfortunately lots going on I am seriously unwell today not sure but a bug of some sort and the wind and the weather here in the Vendee has got me down. Like November. I am going further south if this continues. They said south of the Loire better weather you should see the trees down. Will post something tomorrow

The rain today in South Vendee has flattened everything. I am fed up

NI do things somewhat differently to the mainland. Lots of things are devolved to NI including DLA and the like. Obviously I am Welsh and certain things are devolved to Wales but not DLA. I am not sure but is DLA and the like devolved to Scotland and is there evidence from Scotland on the same point? Obviously this information from NI is very useful in any Tribunal on the mainland for whilst it is not as easy 'They have it in NI why cannot I have it here in England' but it can be used simply that NI have interpreted the law differently so are Blackpool at fault in their interpretation? Or are things that different in NI? The law is the law wherever it falls.

Hi I am a lawyer and sat in and tried to help my friend get divorced here. It took for ages cost a fortune and was messy. If it were me and it is not I would get divorced in the UK.

Thanks Big Mac

Thanks you have very much added to the discussion as far as we are concerned and we now better understand. Niort it is next week end. We are grateful

Dear Parsnips the obligations here are with the banks and the terms of HMG are onerous and costly. Our BS absolutely refuse to pay gross. So every May I reclaim the tax deducted then wait six months for the money back and then send it back to the BS It is madness The sums are not huge but it drives me mad.

Here in the Vendee we had lots of rain yesterday and now a nagging north wind. We are envious of those who enjoy better weather than us. Indeed I moved from Normandie for better weather. So its basics I am afraid.

Thanks and I am so grateful. But these are non standard windows so it is going to be somewhat difficult as I am an absolute non starter diy wise to put these in. However am going to Niort next week and will chat to the people there. What should I really be looking for in that the L'Impot guys need for tax purposes certain qualifications as to the bio efficency of the units.

We live in a protected village and where the Batiments of France guys control strictly (and so they should) what happens here. However making a major investment in doubled glazed units. Does anyone please (and this is a long shot) have any direct experiences of an artisan or window supplier near to Fontenay le Comte in 85 many thanks

Ron is absolutely correct on this point. Combine it with a visit to the UK and put it on your shopping list.

Depends as to where you live? Here in Cheffois in the Vendee a 100 litres cost less than 7 euros.