Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

Cambridge council’s U-turn on taxi disability rights

Cambridge Council’s August taxi licensing newsletter (pdf) has this correction. In the March 2017 edition of the Taxi newsletter we published an article entitled ’Important Changes to Equality Law’. The article concerned the recent changes to equality law and the duties imposed on drivers of wheelchair accessible vehicles. Following publication of the newsletter it came…

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Is ICO’s insistence data subjects complain to controllers before S42 assessments legitimate?

If anybody feels that an organisation may have failed to follow the Data Protection Act whilst dealing with their data, they can ask the ICO for an assessment about whether that processing is likely to have been OK or not, under S42 of the Data Protection Act. The ICO are obliged to respond unless they…

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Scotrail’s 1st Class “wheelchair spaces” & attack on me

I’m going on a trip up the Far North line to Orkney. As this is somewhat of a special trip, I decided to go First Class where possible (I booked 3 months in advance with split ticketing to make it affordable.) As ever with the rail industry, my need for wheelchair access meant booking was…

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