Threat to life and wellbeing: Our claim against the Greater London Authority filed at the Central London County Court this afternoon
Mayor of London Boris Johnson
Heavey v The Greater London AuthorityIn the Central London County Court
The Claimant challenges the Defendant for depriving him of his right of review in respect of its decision to refer him and his wife from the Mayor of London’s Housing First programme to the Mayor’s Clearing House programme (the “referral decision”), thereby terminating their eligibility for their flat because they are able to live independently. On 12 August 2015 the High Court refused the Claimant permission to apply for Judicial Review, principally because his Claim Form was not filed within 3 months after the grounds to make the claim arose on 4 September 2014. It is evident from the email the Claimant received on 4 September 2014, judicial review pre-action correspondence and the Defendant’s Grounds of Defence (in particular paragraph 13) that the Claimant has been repeatedly deprived of his right of review, and that the Defendant has not properly considered the impact of the referral decision on his family life. It has not taken into account the Claimant and his wife’s needs and vulnerable position as rough sleepers for almost 4 years in total. The Claimant is therefore making an application to the Court for a declaration that the Defendant has acted unlawfully and an order that it reviews the referral decision and provides the Claimant with the opportunity to appeal to an independent tribunal if he is not satisfied with the outcome.
Value
The Claimant expects to recover damages for distress of not more than £1,000.
Threat to life and wellbeing (paragraphs 16 and 17):
14(ii) On 26 August 2015 the Claimant discovered that the information that came back from GLA Clearing House following his Subject Access Request failed to comply with a County Court order dated 8 May 2015 requesting that it removes from its website unlawfully held information about the Claimant and his wife relating to their debts, their employment status and their alleged mental health condition. At a hearing on 8 May 2015, the Court found sufficient evidence that SHP had acted unlawfully in holding or uploading information about the Claimant relating to his debts, his employment status and an alleged mental health condition and ordered it to pay damages to him for distress of £750.
As Declan states in paragraph 15 of his particulars of claim, before he issued court proceedings against the Single Homeless Project (SHP) for unlawfully holding or uploading information about him relating to his debts, his employment status and alleged grandiosity, the Chairman of Network for Church Monitoring, Dr. Stephen D. Mumford, founder and President of the North Carolina-based Center for Research on Population and Security, provided the homeless charity with this strong rebuttal of their now fully discredited claim that both he and I are mentally ill:
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We were evicted from our previous flat on 14 March 2013 because according to our then live-in landlady's ex-husband, Dr Nigel McKenzie, a consultant psychiatrist in Highgate Mental Health Centre, our flat was needed for somebody with a mental illness. As Declan mentions in paragraph 16(ii) of his particulars of claim above, former MI5 whistleblower David Shayler also lived with human rights activist Belinda McKenzie in the same political 'safe house' for a couple of years until 2007. It is unfortunate Shayler then declared that he was the Messiah, became a squatter, and was subsequently ridiculed in the press for changing his name to Delores Kane. A New Statesman article dated 11 September 2006 featuring Shayler and Belinda gives no indication that Shayler believed he was the Messiah at that time; whilst a Daily Mail interview with Shayler explicitly shows he believed himself to be Jesus by June 2007. He has never regained his normal self.
*On 2 May 2013, Issuu removed this pdf from my Issuu account following a copyright complaint by Hearst Communications. I had uploaded the article to my Issuu account in December 2012. In March 2013, when last I checked, the article had been viewed more than 15,000 times. It can be viewed here.
BBC PANORAMA: The David Shayler Affair (August 1998)
According to BBC Panorama, Shayler "caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair". In 2002, he was jailed for seven weeks for breaking the Official Secrets Act.