Public Service and Local Government




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General Articles

25 ways to suppress the truth

Helps a complainant to identify the various means Public Services or Local Government Ombudsmen use to suppress the truth.

This also includes eight ways a Public Services or Local Government Ombudsman can avoid having to tell the truth.

Fallacy recognition handbook

Helps a complainant to identify the various fallacious arguments Public Services and Local Government Ombudsmen very often use.

Ombudsman articles

Ombudsman promotes maladministration

Are Ombudsmen a Court of Star Chamber

England: Third Division Ombudsmen

Oral Hearings

Freedom of Information Act doomed

LGO specific articles

Duty of Care? A Duty to Give A Toss Would Be A Start

Local Government (Non-)Accountability

Local Government Ombudsman Level 3

The Local Government Ombudsman Comeback Con

Friends of the LGO

The need for an independent Local Government complaints commission

Deconstructing justice

Analysis of a Local Government Ombudsman's 2006 annual letter to a Council

Analysis of the Local Government Ombudsmen's 2006 annual review

Local Settlements

The Balchin case

PHSO specific articles

Six principles of good administration

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