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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Access to our Church and State website: A record-breaking 35 blocks in one day today. Declan has already started his Particulars of Claim against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 16/5/2016)

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice

Heavey v St Mungo's (2019)

UPDATE 29 April (5.05pm): Not a squeak! Today we're dealing with absolute silence from St Mungo's, which is ominous, and swiftly heading for Particulars of Claim under the Human Rights Act Articles 8 (protection of family life and home) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination). Declan will probably draw up the particulars this week. I am battling the internet connection speeds I am getting on my primary laptop; see my previous post yesterday, The internet connection on my primary laptop is taken away again. The previous record for this form of assault is over three months on the same laptop. Declan pays British Telecom £900 per year for Superfast Fibre 2 Unlimited broadband with an average speed advertised at 67Mb. He has been experiencing no issues this month with speeds on his primary laptop. I, on the other hand, have been struggling since last Monday. Today I can hardly open a page.

29 April (previous post): Pre-Action Letter: The Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's withhold case notes in clear violation of Declan's rights under the Human Rights Act. Details of Claim revealed in this post. Particulars of Claim up next (WITH UPDATE 29/4/2019)

27 June 2018: SITE BLOCKS: The blocks on access to our Church and State website continue unabated (WITH UPDATE 30/4/2019: re 1,865th block since 26 July 2016).

Claimant: Declan Heavey
Defendant: St Mungo's

Particulars of Claim

This is paragraph 4 of particulars.

4. For over two months from late June 2018, the Claimant and his wife were dealing with problems with inaccurate case notes. This commenced following a first meeting on 25 June 2018 between the Claimant's wife and her TST caseworker. Dominic Williamson is Executive Director of Strategy and Policy for the Defendant. The problems with the Claimant's wife's case notes got more serious on 1 August 2018 when the Claimant discovered that notes Mr. Williamson assured the court at both the preliminary hearing and at trial the year previous had been rectified by him were in fact held under the Claimant's wife's name. On 20 August 2018, Mr. Williamson responded: "If you wife is wants to change what her record says she should speak to her TST worker in the first instance [sic]. If this does not resolve the issue then she can use the St. Mungo's complaints procedure." The Claimant's previous court action was dismissed by the court. On 24 January 2019, Mr. Williamson wrote: "The court case concerned your complaint about the notes on your record. My understanding is that following the court case it became apparent that the note in contention was mirrored on your wife's record - which I don't recall being aware of at the time - and this was subsequently amended to reflect the change we had made to yours. The court was therefore not misled." The Claimant does not accept that the court was not misled.

UPDATE 16 May (11.15am): All Particulars of Claim against St Mungo's are disclosed in my newer post of 7 May, Particulars of Claim: Declan is once again ready to issue court proceedings against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 16/5/2019). The post also reveals Declan's pre-action letter to St Mungo's CEO Howard Sinclair dated 26 April. Sinclair has breached protocol by neither resolving nor replying to this letter. Ignoring the letter records as yet another violation in a string of violations by this Mayor of London-commissioned charity that have had a destabilising effect upon our tenancy month in, month out for an entire year. Declan has at the ready his claim to be filed at the Central London County Court. No further notice will be issued. On another front, since last December, we have had a problem with email blockage the likes of which we have never known; see my post of 22 April, Email interception: Immediately after this complaint to our local MP a test email to two close colleagues has been blocked. A 2010 parliamentary letter to now Prime Minister Theresa May revealed in this post (WITH UPDATE 16/5/2019). The post also reveals details of the sabotage of Declan's emails to Nobel laureates since 21 February; the details are eye-watering.

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8 May: Greater London Authority: The Mayor of London's Rough Sleeping Team at City Hall breach the GLA's Code of Conduct by contacting St Mungo's on Declan's behalf without his authority or consent (WITH UPDATE 16/5/2019)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

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Church and State

MAYOR OF LONDON RSI PROPERTY
DAY 406 IN A WEEKLY PERIODIC TENANCY
SUBJECT TO A SECTION 21 NOTICE

(SEE PARA. 3 BELOW)

1. Our 308 Honorary Associates include 20 Nobel Prize laureates. Declan and I are engaged in a project that deals with the publication of issues significant to social policy in a number of key areas, e.g., climate change, population, futurism, atheism, and free speech. Established as Network for Church Monitoring, a non-profit company limited by guarantee, our main publication, found at the website, Church and State, calls attention to subjects, not the least which have been critical of the interaction between religious and secular institutions. We have been the target of numerous threats and actions, e.g., the former resulting in threats to Declan's life, and the latter, which have led to vandalism. The various incidents are on record with the police and other official agencies.

2. There are no less than 63 Nobel Prize laureates on the Church and State website from 20 Honorary Associates, eight articles, nine book excerpts and 33 petition signatories. (For example, one Nobel laureate signed our Nobel petition in support of human embryonic stem cell research and gave us permission to excerpt from one of his books.) Our list of associates also includes 18 US National Medal laureates, and six Turing Award laureates (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science). We have published one article and excerpted from the books of seven members of the British House of Lords. And there are 31 knighted professors on the site from 13 Honorary Associates, one book excerpt and 21 petition signatories. These figures are despite the never-ending assault on our email (this link reveals the targeting of our emails to, among others, a close colleague in Washington, DC as well as space advocates and Nobel laureates).

3. This is Day 406 for us living under the threat to life of a 'no fault' eviction by Peabody Trust.[1] We live in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) property. Peabody's appalling new terms of tenancy have forced us into an unstable weekly periodic tenancy that poses a threat to Declan's life and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. Declan accumulated quite a history with the Housing Ombudsman Service before he received the Ombudsman's decision not to investigate a referral from Lyn Brown MP on jurisdictional grounds. The Ombudsman was asked to consider whether or not our tenancy has been renewed like for like; and whether, if not, it should be in light of the landlord having accused us of not signing a like-for-like agreement. The Equality and Human Rights Commission will not accept a referral of discrimination from Ms Brown, the Commission's helpline (EASS) having grossly distorted the complaint against Peabody. We no longer have pro se access to the courts (see next paragraph).

4. This eviction matter came before District Judge Ruth Fine at the Central London County Court on 30 June 2020, when both counsel for St Mungo's (the charity in effective control of our tenancy) and Declan presented their positions. Declan lost the case and was ordered to pay £1,850 in costs. A publishing colleague in America cleared these costs within 24 hours of my blog post about this hearing for strike out on a related issue that was the essence of the claim, i.e., that St Mungo's would take a phone call to confirm that we are clients of the Mayor of London's RSI programme. Within a week of the hearing, St Mungo's had agreed to take this phone call for us both, the Court having ruled that they were not obliged to do so despite our circumstances. This time we escaped bankruptcy (counsel for St Mungo's asked for £3,407.50 in costs), but consider that to seek pro se access to justice in the courts has become far too dangerous for us. Declan currently has before the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman the decision of the Information Commissioner that allows St Mungo's to continue processing coercive support plans without our knowledge or consent and that also poses a threat to his life.

5. When it comes to traffic, we have had 10.7 million hits in the past three years on Facebook; however, I left the platform on 13 March 2021 for one year rather than risk being banned for life. It is indisputable that with any sort of level playing field Church and State would have far exceeded 2.5 million hits last year. In addition to a large variety of blocks without explanation, Facebook had so severely restricted our Page's distribution by October 2020 that it was almost as good as an unpublished page.[2] Currently, we are up to their 85th block since 1 December 2015, and as usual without an explanation. This block records as one half of their 3rd double block in the first five weeks of this year that lasted 60 days. Our traffic has also been curtailed by over 2.5K blocks on access to Church and State since 26 July 2016, including 29 full distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since 17 May 2019 that have lasted for as long as 54 hours at a time.[3] About 70% of our hits are from Americans.

"This is precisely the hard hitting kind of response needed to clarify the unfair way Facebook is treating your highly reputable site." Don Collins, Founder, International Services Assistance Fund, Washington DC

Last updated: 26/06/21

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[1] Once a fixed term has elapsed, the landlord has the option to seek eviction even if the tenant has upheld their obligations in full (though of course the landlord must still apply for and obtain a county court order).

[2] 17/10/20: We have permission to publish this ISAF letter of 30 September to Facebook COO Sheryl Samberg. Facebook has so severely restricted our Page's distribution since 4 September that it's almost as good as an unpublished page

[3] Since October 2019, we have been defining a full DDoS attack as having such a high volume of up to 4-minute blocks on access to Church and State that we don't bother recording them all.

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Access to our Church and State website: A record-breaking 35 blocks in one day today. Declan has already started his Particulars of Claim against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 16/5/2016)

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