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Justice for Jodey fight continues with fresh request for appeal

By John Pring on 4th November 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Justice for Jodey fight continues with fresh request for appeal
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly stopped is to make a second attempt to secure permission to appeal against a high court ruling. Joy Dove is fighting to secure a second […]

Mother of Jodey Whiting fights on for justice with appeal bid

By John Pring on 7th October 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mother of Jodey Whiting fights on for justice with appeal bid
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly stopped is to seek permission to appeal against a court’s ruling that there should not be a second inquest into her daughter’s death. Joy Dove […]

Judges reject claim that systemic DWP failings led to death, despite years of evidence

By John Pring on 23rd September 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Judges reject claim that systemic DWP failings led to death, despite years of evidence
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Three judges have rejected a mother’s bid to secure a second inquest into the death of her disabled daughter – who killed herself after her benefits were wrongly stopped – despite one of the judges criticising the “shocking” failures in the […]

Jodey Whiting: DWP tells high court her death was isolated case and not sign of systemic failure… despite years of evidence

By John Pring on 24th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: DWP tells high court her death was isolated case and not sign of systemic failure… despite years of evidence
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has told a court that the death of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were removed was not part of a widespread “systemic” problem, despite years of evidence to […]

Jodey Whiting: Judge asks why DWP failed to ‘pick up a phone’ before claimant’s suicide

By John Pring on 24th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: Judge asks why DWP failed to ‘pick up a phone’ before claimant’s suicide
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A high court judge has asked the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) why it did not take the “common sense” step of phoning a disabled woman with a long history of mental distress – who later took her own life […]

Jodey Whiting: Fresh evidence shows need for second inquest into death ‘caused by DWP’

By John Pring on 24th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: Fresh evidence shows need for second inquest into death ‘caused by DWP’
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Fresh evidence shows that the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were a “central cause” of the death of a disabled women who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly removed, the high court heard this […]

Judge’s ‘astounding’ attack on Coffey’s ‘wholly unsatisfactory’ behaviour

By John Pring on 17th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Judge’s ‘astounding’ attack on Coffey’s ‘wholly unsatisfactory’ behaviour
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A high court judge has accused work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey of “wholly unsatisfactory” behaviour and lacking respect for the mother of a benefit claimant whose death was linked to failures by her department. Mr Justice Morris spoke out about […]

High court is asked to order fresh inquest into death of Jodey Whiting

By John Pring on 23rd December 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

High court is asked to order fresh inquest into death of Jodey Whiting
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The mother of a disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were wrongly stopped has asked the high court to order a second inquest into her death. Joy Dove wants to see the “heartless and cruel” actions of the Department […]

Legal victory is step towards fresh inquest into Jodey Whiting’s death

By John Pring on 12th November 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Legal victory is step towards fresh inquest into Jodey Whiting’s death
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly stopped has won a legal victory that could lead to a full examination of whether the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) caused her daughter’s […]

Disabled artist ‘sections’ DWP for being ‘a danger to benefit claimants’

By John Pring on 24th September 2020 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disabled artist ‘sections’ DWP for being ‘a danger to benefit claimants’
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A disabled artist-activist yesterday attempted to “section” the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for being a danger to benefit claimants. In an action designed to highlight DWP’s lack of compassion, Dolly Sen delivered a printed heart to DWP’s Caxton House […]

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