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Dear Colin, Thanks for your email. I think you have, once again, pointed out the problems of accessing and using services, including legal services, by disabled people with nuerodiverse conditions. Services don't understand the access and support needs of this group of disabled people and don't have any provision to facilitate this happening. I was saying to you that there may be a meeting of CILs in April to look at the problem of funding for our organisations. This will be a good opportunity to raise this issue. We can also try to raise the question through the right to independent living campaign and the new bill on this issue being introduced by Lord Ashley. I think the idea of a group for disabled people with neurodiverse experiences is very important and a campaign group, with the support of solicitors, is a good idea. My thought is that we try to approach the DRC, who have a users group, for disabled people from this community. This will be a good place for such a group to be linked in. Given the current uncertainty about funding for NCIL, this may also be a much more secure route through which we can develop this work. Best wishes, Yours Sincerely Roy Webb Head of Policy National Centre for Independent Living 4th Floor, Hampton House 20, Albert Embankment London SE1 7TJ Tel: 020 7587 1663 Fax: 020 7582 2469 Minicom 020 7582 1177 email: [log in to unmask] www.ncil.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: Colin Revell [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 20 February 2006 00:01 To: [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; Roy Webb; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Subject: THE GROUP FOR SOLICITORS WITH DISABILITIES-from Simone Aspies and my reply.... (Mike please let this reply from myself to Simone Aspies and my responses to her go through Danmail) Hi Simone I know what you mean about solicitors and barristers. I have experienced and reserached this myself with numerous legal-advocates across the UK and has you are well informed they all have discriminatory 'disablist' attitudes and behaviour towards all disabled people. None of them are implementing their statutory-duties, under the DDA 1995 and HRA 1998 and getting away with it and if you make complainst as a disabled person, then you are 'struck-off', then you are 'black-balled' by the rest of the legal professions., then, if you...'COMPLAIN', as you are to their 'regulation-bodies', then you know how they respond to complaints from us 'crips' ? Are you informed that I have taken up these issues up with the Law Society, Bar Council and Legal Services Ombudsman and Her Majesty's Court Service(HMCS) Customer Services Unit, but I'm getting no-where with all my complaints and human and civil rights protests and I am being 'swallowed-up' and 'spit-out' by 'the-(legal)-system' for 'whistle-blowing' about the legal-advocacy system. As many of you know at this present time I am fighting alone, with support of(from) Joe Whittaker, Navin Kikabhai, Dr Aylott, David Glenister, Hazel Pottage, Roy Webb, Dr Linda Misek-Falkoff(UN Disability Convention), Richard Light, Rachel Hurst, Mike Higgins and other supporters for my basic 'freedoms and liberty', with threats of being committed to prison for my basic human and civil rights work, for having 'integrity' and 'honesty', as a neurodiverse disabled person and keeping to my professional 'code-of-ethics' I was educated 'to-do' at University, as a Youth and Community Worker and Social Scientist, but I am paying the consquences for 'whistle-blowing' now, with all the 'ABUSE' I am experiencing by all the public-bodies, legal-advocates and the Court in the UK. I am back at Court soon and I my 'circle-of-friends/support' are struggling in finding any legal advocacy for my next court hearing and I've got 22 days and counting, then I am back at court and DJ Besford is going to make decisions in my case, even if I got no legal-advocates to represent me. What does this say about how us disabled people are not being afforded protection of basic human and civil rights? As a member, campaigner, advocate, educator and researcher within the UN Disability Convention I am hoping that Dr Linda Misek-Falkoff, Richard Light and other peer-advocates and collegues are going to give me their full support and backing, because I need it and I hope my 'user-led' research, yours and others is taken very seriously and responded to by thr UN Disability Convention, because I have put muself at 'great-risk' in 'whistle-blowing' in my case and 'speaking-out' for other disabled peopl, especailly those with 'neurodiversity' around basic human and civil rights which are being serious violated and infringed within the UK and especilaly within the 'legal-(advocacy)-system', as you are well informed. 'We'(professional) disabled people who are 'whistle-blowing' are not being protected under s55 (victimisation) Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Whistle-blowing Act and other UK, EU and International basic human and civil rights legislation. I was advised by a legal advocate, working for the defence(NHS Trusts) in my case, who is one of the good-guys, from Hempson's solicitors, that I should ask Dr Linda Misek-Falkoff and Dr Richard Light, from the UN to write to District Judge Besford urgently in my in my case. I know that Linda has done this in the past to the District Judge. I don't know if Richard has, but I know him and Rachel Hurst are well informed of my case. I can't do it all alone and that's why I have asked the Roy Webb, Adrian Whyatt for us to form the 'working-group', which I mentioned in my email yesterday within the NCIL and BCODP and other interested individuals, parties and groups. Roy has suggested we organise a meeting a NCIL in about April time. You need to speak with Roy and Adrian, about this and I will include them and others in within your email. I will send a copy of my reply to your email throughout the Local, National(UK) and Global disabled people's, survivors, inclusion and independent living movements for them to respond too. Can I ask you which solicitors firm are you refereing too? FREEOURPEOPLE Take-Care Colin Revell >From: "simone" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Colin Revell" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: THE GROUP FOR SOLICITORS WITH DISABILITIES Date: Fri, 17 >Feb >2006 23:07:35 -0000 > > Hello Colin > > Umm, have you managed to see their newsletter yet? It is full of >scrubbles even though the group was set up to support disabled people. Do >not get me going about bloody lawyers! I have just received an e-mail >from >Anne Pridmore about a disabled person's bad experience of a legal firm >that (you and I probably know) who had treated him like s***. I >certainly have given up with lawyers working with BCODP - noone quite >frankly appears to be interested in working with user lead >organisations and say no more! > > > Simone A > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Colin Revell" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]>; ><[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 6:37 PM > Subject: THE GROUP FOR SOLICITORS WITH DISABILITIES > > > > Roy, Adrian, Simone et al... > > > > Any disabled people's human and civil rights 'justice-group' we set up > > within NCIL, BCODP with DANDA and others must include and advised >by 'THE > > GROUP FOR SOLICITORS WITH DISABILITIES':- > > http://www.gsdnet.org.uk/content/sen_disability_act_2001/ > > > > Yours > > > > Colin > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Are you using the latest version of MSN Messenger? Download MSN >Messenger > > 7.5 today! http://messenger.msn.co.uk > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters ________________End of message______________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about the list administratione should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.