Emily Barnes

A layperson working my way through a tangled legal web

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

Let down, misled and overcharged by a solicitor, then waited 2 years for the @Legal_Ombudsman to decide not to investigate my complaint.

Do read my story, retweet or get in touch if you’ve had your fingers burnt by one of the dysfunctional regulators

https://t.co/HGZ5htQRgB

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

Shambolic procedural failures from the SRA—again. Investigative processes under fire, growing scrutiny of their effectiveness... but who holds this regulator accountable? Thoughts? 👀 #SRA #LegalAccountability #RegulationReform

https://t.co/5R0Xa5fYMU

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

@Nikoxgrippo SHOP

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

@webercj100 @blakesliving Guide

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

I’ll ignore the cringeworthy nature of this tweet & focus instead on the policy. I have questions for those who support it:

1. We currently have a teacher recruitment / retention crisis in this country. Do you think people will suddenly rush to want to become teachers, just because private schools charge VAT? Also, do you think people are more or less likely to want to become teachers, when class sizes increase due to private/state pupil transfer?

2. As per above, we currently have high vacancy rates in the mental health sector. Again, do you think people will suddenly choose this profession, because, ya know, VAT? (Don’t get me started on the fact we are addressing symptom of children needing extra mental health support, rather than the causes of that).

3. Again we currently have high vacancy rates of school career advisers. Questions as per point 1&2 apply.

4. Those who support this policy because of ‘private schools creating inequality’. Do you realise this will just make private schools more ‘elite’? The truly rich won’t be affected, it will be the strivers / those who sacrifice who are, thus the gap between groups becomes even more stark. BTW - Whose facilities do you think state schools often use?

5. We all like a fair society, so if you think it’s now ‘fair’ that private schools are singled out for VAT, what about other fee-based educational settings; universities & private nurseries as examples…Once you apply VAT to one educational setting, you create an argument for it to be expanded. Would you be ok with that?

6. What about the disproportionate number of SEN pupils who will be cruelly affected by this? If these pupils have to return to state education, there will be an increased cost and an impact on overall learning experiences for broader class. Does this really make sense?

7. Do you honestly think the pupil transfer volumes from private to state have been accurately calculated (especially at younger age levels)?

For what it’s worth; I think this policy does not make sense on any level. I believe it to be purely motivated by envy, idiology and a ‘pull down, rather than pull up’ mentality.

In my view, private school parents should be thanked for removing the burden of educating their children from the state and instead allowing other children to benefit from the school places that they fund, but don’t use….

If we want the UK to succeed, we should have a mindset of abundance, not scarcity. We should aim to pull up, not down and we should encourage financial success, not resent it…

#PrivateSchool #PoliticsOfEnvy

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

Abigail very sadly lost her life recently. She was a beautiful kind person. If you can spare a minute or two to read her lovely Mum’s words and support their fundraising for the charities that were close to Abigail’s heart it would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

💜Abigail Satwick https://t.co/NUb2rXS26b

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

Can anyone recommend a courier company that will reliably deliver liquid (wine)?

Used @interparcel - 3 of 4 parcels now missing or opened with items taken by @ApcCompany35351. Nothing has been dealt with despite extra being paid for insurance. I run a small business that cannot afford such poor service. Any suggestions of a better company?

[Paul Carlier @Carlier_J87]

👇👇👇 I urge everyone to read this excellent summary of the testimony of former Post Office Chair Alice Perkins at the Post Office Inquiry by former postmaster @chrish9070 . And when you do, consider if this represents the liberty and freedoms that so many gave their lives for on those Normandy beaches on this day 80 years ago.

Yet another 'Apology, not an apology'. Another attempt to re-write history. And how is it not perjury to claim that you made every effort to establish the truth, when the evidence proves you made every effort to do the opposite?

This is the latest disturbing example in recent months where the Chair of an organisation or a listed company has been exposed as abdicating their responsibility to hold their Board and CEO to account, and instead prove to be little more than a lapdog to the Board and a barrier to accountability.

The role of Chair should be a vital component in terms of corporate governance. All evidence suggests that it has evolved into something rather different.

@TransparencyTF
@APPGbanking
@appgonpbandffs
@AWhistleblowing
@APPGInvestFraud
@PostOffInquiry
@stugoo17
@CastletonLee
@PaulMar72224296
@nickwallis
@PrivateEyeNews
@RevRichardColes
@carolvorders
@ElCShaikh
@PostOffice
@BBCNews
@itvnews
@TomWitherow
@Janetsk20073533
@RichardMoorhead
#PostOfficeScandal #PostOfficeInquiry #injustice #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #MrBates #MrBatesvsPostOffice #perjury #fraud #miscarriageofjustice #dday #lestweforget

[Tom Witherow @TomWitherow]

New: Paula Vennells tears up and grabs a tissue during her evidence - as she is asked why she made a false statement in a meeting with MPs.

She told parliamentarians that Post Office had won every prosecution based on Horizon - when it had lost around five. #PostOfficeinquiry

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

@Neena_rogerson From different people?

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

‼️IF YOU RECEIVE A MESSAGE FROM ME WITH A LINK TO CLICK, PLEASE DON’T, IT’S SPAM ‼️

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

@Hoarder55 Sorry to hear this, you are likely to be hacked now too. Someone has suggested I change my passwords and the likely origin of this is Instagram

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

@CarlBoylin Thank you, I will change

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

@BrianHudson3333 Very sorry, it is spam, it’s not from me

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

ME TOO 😬 PLEASE DON’T CLICK ON ANY LINK YOU RECEIVE FROM ME, ITS SPAM 👇🏻

[HRH The Rt Hon Arch Duchess Rosie Heys QC @RosieHeys]

I got sent a dodgy app - and stupidly clicked on it, now it's sending an instagram link to my followers... PLEASE DON'T CLICK ON IT...

[Trevelyan Haileybury @TrevelyanHouse]

Lots of money raised for @MudlarksGarden tonight!

[Justice Committee @CommonsJustice]

📢 We have received a response from the Govt to our letter on the regulation of the legal professions.

Read the response from Lord Chancellor @AlexChalkChelt👇

https://t.co/TyMU5PnO53

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

@stugoo17 Absolute compelling viewing.....brilliantly and calmly questioned by Sam Stein KC

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

Is the LeO a complaints regulator that can’t handle its own complaints system?

Having requested to the LeO to close a complaint about a solicitor/firm last year before investigation (I pursued negligence action instead-rules of the LeO are you can’t do both)

Subsequently ‘won’ the negligence action but then what dropped into my inbox was a letter from the LeO that they wouldn’t be investigating because I was a few days outside of the 6 month deadline to refer a complaint. When politely reminded that I’d already closed the complaint last year the investigator said ‘not my fault, it was a different department’

So how come Scheme Rules are so widely used to dismiss complaints without investigation, but then they fail to follow others requests to not investigate?
@LSB_EngandWal @TheLawSociety
#legalregulators

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

Let down, misled and overcharged by a solicitor, then waited 2 years for the @Legal_Ombudsman to decide not to investigate my complaint.

Do read my story, retweet or get in touch if you’ve had your fingers burnt by one of the dysfunctional regulators

https://t.co/HGZ5htQRgB

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

Who would choose to be a litigant in person?

What the article doesn’t mention is often one party is a LiP, the other not, hence creating ‘inequality of arms’. As the article states, ‘court is high risk’, and ‘inequality of arms’ can be a risk of fair justice

@LSB_EngandWal @MoJGovUK @TheLawSociety

[The Law Society @TheLawSociety]

⚖️ “Thousands of people are being forced to take on their case on their own, as they have no access to free legal advice.”

President Nick Emmerson tells the @gazette_ie, as we analyse new data on litigants in person in the private family courts.

https://t.co/TstWjHLDXP

[Emily Barnes @EmilyB2801]

@RosieHeys @stugoo17 I recently ‘won’ a negligence case against a firm. In financial terms it amounts to some loose change that I might be able to buy a bag of popcorn with 🍿