Mailtrack Daily Report 26/6/19: 45 emails sent, 34 unread

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).

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Our local MP (Labour) acknowledged by autoreply this complaint last April about the interception of our email but hasn't responded to it.

Rt Hon Lyn Brown MP
Member of Parliament for West Ham

Address removed for email


21 April 2019

Dear Ms. Brown,

As my local MP, I am forwarding to you an email I have received this afternoon from a close colleague about his concern that my and my wife's emails are being blocked. I would be most grateful if you could please let me know if you can be of any assistance in correcting the outrageous manipulation of my and my wife's email in undermining our part-time jobs as employees of Network for Church Monitoring.

In April 2010, an American professor wrote to then Minister Lynne Featherstone: "I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference." An (unsuccessful) application I subsequently made to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in 2011 has had absolutely no effect, and if anything the situation has gotten substantially worse. For some details, please see my wife's updated blog post here.

I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

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 27/6/2019)

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From My Picks:

19 June: Greater London Authority: The Mayor of London's Rough Sleeping Team at City Hall breach Declan's rights by contacting St Mungo's on his behalf without his authority or consent (WITH UPDATE 20/6/2019)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

St Mungo's: Draft paragraphs 36-38 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. We have never been able to get the support we need from this Mayor of London-commissioned charity

From paragraph 36 below:

"This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!"
-Don Collins, President of ISAF, an NGO dedicated to helping women

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).

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population". Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).

This is exactly the kind of action you constantly need to take!!
-Don Collins, President, ISAF, Washington DC

19 June 2019

Dear Sofia,

Thank you for your email. [Name withheld] might want you to complete the attached volunteer reference form. You forgot to reply to their question about my "honesty, reliability and temperament".

Best regards,

Maria [Lola] Heavey

20 June: St Mungo's: Now I can't even get a satisfactory reference from this Mayor of London-commissioned charity after three years of voluntary work. Declan is updating his threat-to-life complaint to the United Nations last year

Declan and I are housed in a flat that is part of the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative. Alongside our tenancy is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's. It has been acknowledged by the Greater London Authority in court papers that both Declan and I can live independently – we do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Our needs are solely related to the harassment, discrimination and intimidation we routinely face. We have never been able to get the basic and reliable support we need from St Mungo's, but we have been battling them from pillar to post for over a year, culminating in a reference for me last week that raises more questions than it answers. On 5 June I posted St Mungo's: Declan's email to CEO Howard Sinclair of this Mayor of London-commissioned charity further to pre-action letter dated 26 April 2019 (WITH UPDATE 20/6/2019). The update to the post raises serious questions relating to transparency and trust when it comes to this charity, not me. Declan will put the record straight in his forthcoming updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. These are his draft paragraphs 36-38 regarding St Mungo's:

In re St Mungo's

Draft paragraphs 36-38 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

36. The Applicant and his wife's tenancy agreement was renewed like-for-like for the second time last year, but only when court proceedings against St. Mungo's were imminent two months after the Applicant complained that the decision not to reissue another tenancy for two former rough sleepers with support needs amounted to a type of harassment and a death threat. Since then, the Applicant has been battling St. Mungo's from pillar to post to stabilise his and his wife's tenancy (see Annex 16, pp. 39-41). First it was problems with inaccurate case notes, which got more serious in August 2018 when the Applicant discovered that notes St. Mungo's assured District Judge Avent the year previous had been rectified by them were in fact being held under the Applicant's wife's name. Last year the Applicant also had to battle St. Mungo's for his own Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) caseworker and to stave off enforced joint visits. This year the Applicant has already had to twice battle St. Mungo's to have removed outrageous notes that were inputted into their system on both occasions without his knowledge or consent. On 13 June 2019, the Applicant's professional referee observed: "This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!" The following week, the Applicant's wife received from her TST caseworker a completed volunteer reference form that had been sent to a hospice for the dying. This caseworker left blank a question relating to the Applicant's wife's "honesty, reliability and temperament", and has not sought to rectify the error and misleading impression.

37. On 8 April 2019, the Applicant complained to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about a blockade across London on his volunteer applications notwithstanding his support from the Mayor-commissioned St. Mungo's TST. For over two years, the Applicant fought without success to secure a long-term volunteer position through Newham Council's Active Newham. He had applied to Active Newham in 2016 to befriend an older or isolated person in his community. The Applicant is a former physical education teacher who has taught in Glenstal Abbey, one of Ireland's top schools. He is cleared by the police to work with children and adults, and has a high-quality written recommendation from his professional referee (see Annex 17, p. 42). Last year the Applicant became an accredited UK Athletics assistant coach to further enhance his volunteering applications. Nonetheless, the supporting emails that St. Mungo's TST has written to Active Newham, Bromley by Bow Centre, Sense and KEEN London have either been ignored or overlooked by the recipients. The case notes most recently rectified by St. Mungo's TST relate to his TST caseworker's supporting emails to learning disability organisations for voluntary roles that require no specialist skills or experience. For example, in the case of KEEN London, the Applicant's TST caseworker's supporting email of 15 March 2019 and follow-up phone calls on 22 March and 2 April 2019 have in effect all been ignored. In an image attachment of notes that the Applicant received on 1 May 2019, the agreed-upon notes relating to this TST caseworker's two phone calls to KEEN London were omitted from the record. The Applicant has had no contact with KEEN London. It cannot, therefore, be suggested that he compromised this support.

38. The Applicant and his wife have never been able to get the basic and reliable support they need from St. Mungo's TST. Newham Council has twice suspended the Applicant's Housing Benefit following erroneous notifications from the Department for Work and Pensions that he and his wife had vacated. The Applicant has even had difficulties securing their address from misconduct by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs staff, and despite several high-level complaints related in part to an unauthorised update to their address. It has been acknowledged by the GLA in court papers that the Applicant and his wife can live independently – they do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Their needs are solely related to the harassment, discrimination, intimidation and victimisation they routinely face. They are extremely concerned that next year they will be forced to challenge a destabilising periodic tenancy, as opposed to fixed term, in a court action against St. Mungo's for dereliction of duty and violation of their human rights. This notwithstanding that it has become abundantly clear that they have been and continue to be deprived of satisfactory tenancy sustainment support. As the matter stands, therefore, there is a threat to life and wellbeing in this case considering the following range of factors as applicable:

(i) The Applicant has a history of respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis and other lung infections. Both he and his wife doubt he has the respiratory health to survive even another year or two on the streets. The Applicant is in his late fifties (58), and during their first period of homelessness, he was hospitalised with pneumonia in December 2006 and with a viral infection in October 2007. Near the end of their second period of homelessness, in April 2014, he was diagnosed with asthma as well as a chest infection (see para. 31 above).

(ii) Back on the streets the Applicant and his wife will be restricted to sleeping on night buses in all sorts of weather (money permitting), notwithstanding the Applicant's asthma and now increased susceptibility to respiratory disease. They were forced into this predicament prior to coming off the streets the second time because of an excessive use of force by police officers to move them out of where they were sleeping. This included the Applicant's wife being threatened with arrest on the trumped-up charge of assaulting a police officer (see paras. 31-32 above). Since the subsequent escalation of the migration crisis in Europe, the police have been given more powers to crack down on rough sleeping and need less to resort to unlawful measures.

(iii) Both the Applicant and his wife have serious concerns about the health care the Applicant has or has not received over the years from National Health Service (NHS) England. Prior to his hospitalisation with pneumonia in 2006, he lost consciousness while vomiting and could have easily died had his wife not been with him. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital discharged him 42 hours after admission whilst still unwell (into the shivering cold and dense fog), placing him at risk. The Applicant most recently complained to NHS England about emergency dental treatment he received in January 2018. He complained that he had a nerve removed from a tooth but was only prescribed antibiotics after the tooth had erupted within days of the treatment, the tooth itself being extracted a month to the day after the nerve had been removed. NHS England did not uphold any aspect of the Applicant's complaint.

Last year St Mungo's made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed, it left Declan gob smacked. He subsequently spoke with Diane Taylor, the journalist covering the story for the Guardian.

EU freedom for rough sleepers infringed - shock horror. https://t.co/RuJKrSEiTm

— Andrew Martin (@devonprof) May 14, 2018

From My Picks:

19 June: Greater London Authority: The Mayor of London's Rough Sleeping Team at City Hall breach Declan's rights by contacting St Mungo's on his behalf without his authority or consent (WITH UPDATE 20/6/2019)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Email interception: How many resends before a close colleague gets to read my email to him last Friday?

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).

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Our local MP (Labour) acknowledged by autoreply this complaint last April about the interception of our email, but hasn't responded to it.

Rt Hon Lyn Brown MP
Member of Parliament for West Ham

Address removed for email


21 April 2019

Dear Ms. Brown,

As my local MP, I am forwarding to you an email I have received this afternoon from a close colleague about his concern that my and my wife's emails are being blocked. I would be most grateful if you could please let me know if you can be of any assistance in correcting the outrageous manipulation of my and my wife's email in undermining our part-time jobs as employees of Network for Church Monitoring.

In April 2010, an American professor wrote to then Minister Lynne Featherstone: "I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference." An (unsuccessful) application I subsequently made to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in 2011 has had absolutely no effect, and if anything the situation has gotten substantially worse. For some details, please see my wife's updated blog post here.

I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

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 19/6/2019)

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From My Picks:

19 June: Greater London Authority: The Mayor of London's Rough Sleeping Team at City Hall breach Declan's rights by contacting St Mungo's on his behalf without his authority or consent (WITH UPDATE 20/6/2019) An "obscene disregard" for Declan's rights revealed in this post!

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

For the last two days I can hardly open a page on the internet. Perhaps Declan's complaint to the UN under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights will be completed within days

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).

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population". Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).

20.06 12:15 Paragraph 2 of my previous post:

"We have never been able to get the basic support we need from St Mungo's, but we have been battling them from pillar to post for over a year, culminating in a reference for me yesterday that raises more questions than it answers. On 5 June I posted St Mungo's: Declan's email to CEO Howard Sinclair of this Mayor of London-commissioned charity further to pre-action letter dated 26 April 2019 (WITH UPDATE 20/6/2019). The update to the post raises serious questions relating to transparency and trust when it comes to this charity, not me. It also contains a quote from Don Collins, President of the Washington DC-based International Services Assistance Fund, who observed last week that "This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!" Declan will put the record straight in his forthcoming updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This cover letter will more likely be dated some day next month: ..."

20 June: St Mungo's: Now I can't even get a satisfactory reference from this Mayor of London-commission charity after three years of voluntary work. Declan is updating his threat-to-life complaint to the United Nations last year

Last year St Mungo's made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed, it left Declan gob smacked. He subsequently spoke with Diane Taylor, the journalist covering the story for the Guardian.

EU freedom for rough sleepers infringed - shock horror. https://t.co/RuJKrSEiTm

— Andrew Martin (@devonprof) May 14, 2018

From My Picks:

19 June: Greater London Authority: The Mayor of London's Rough Sleeping Team at City Hall breach Declan's rights by contacting St Mungo's on his behalf without his authority or consent (WITH UPDATE 20/6/2019)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

St Mungo's: Now I can't even get a satisfactory reference from this Mayor of London-commissioned charity after three years of voluntary work. Declan is updating his threat-to-life complaint to the United Nations last year

From paragraph 2 below:

"This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!"
-Don Collins, President of ISAF, an NGO dedicated to helping women

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).

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population". Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).

19 June 2019

Dear Sofia,

Thank you for your email. [Name withheld] might want you to complete the attached volunteer reference form. You forgot to reply to their question about my "honesty, reliability and temperament".

Best regards,

Maria [Lola] Heavey

19 June (previous post): Greater London Authority: The Mayor of London's Rough Sleeping Team at City Hall breach Declan's rights by contacting St Mungo's on his behalf without his authority or consent (WITH UPDATE 20/6/2019)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

Declan and I are housed in a flat that is part of the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative. Alongside our tenancy is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's. It has been acknowledged by the Greater London Authority in court papers that both Declan and I can live independently – we do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Our needs are solely related to the harassment, discrimination and intimidation we routinely face. Last year St Mungo's made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed, it left Declan gob smacked. He subsequently spoke with Diane Taylor, the journalist covering the story for the Guardian.

EU freedom for rough sleepers infringed - shock horror. https://t.co/RuJKrSEiTm

— Andrew Martin (@devonprof) May 14, 2018

We have never been able to get the basic support we need from St Mungo's, but we have been battling them from pillar to post for over a year, culminating in a reference for me yesterday that raises more questions than it answers. On 5 June I posted St Mungo's: Declan's email to CEO Howard Sinclair of this Mayor of London-commissioned charity further to pre-action letter dated 26 April 2019 (WITH UPDATE 20/6/2019). The update to the post raises serious questions relating to transparency and trust when it comes to this charity, not me. It also contains a quote from Don Collins, President of the Washington DC-based International Services Assistance Fund, who observed last week that "This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!" Declan will put the record straight in his forthcoming updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This cover letter will more likely be dated some day next month:

Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet Jeria
High Commissioner for Human Rights
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Palais Wilson
52 rue des Pâquis
CH-1201 Geneva
Switzerland

June 2019

Your Excellency,

I write as the Managing Director of the non-profit Network for Church Monitoring to ask you to urge the United Kingdom to accede to the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the multilateral treaty that commits its parties to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Article 19 ICCPR and construed by the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. United Kingdom (1976).

The First Optional Protocol sets out a system by which the UN's Human Rights Committee can receive and consider complaints from individuals who allege a violation of the ICCPR. But since the UK Government has not ratified the First Optional Protocol, individuals living in the UK are not currently permitted to submit written communications to the Committee. Indeed, the UK is the only European Union member state (prior to its possible exit from the EU in October 2019) and one of only three members of the Council of Europe not to have acceded to the Protocol.

My wife and I complain of an orchestrated campaign of harassment and intimidation by the UK's Security Service (MI5) and/or Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) over a period dating back to 2003. We have exhausted all available domestic remedies and my claim has been dismissed by the European Court of Human Rights on the ground that it "did not disclose any appearance of a violation of the rights and freedoms set out in the Convention or its Protocols". Please see my Communication enclosed herewith. Paragraphs 49-55 outline why the Vatican and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church should be monitored.

We note the UK Government's response in the sixth periodic report under the ICCPR that it does not see "a compelling need to accept individual petition to the UN" and that "the practical value to the individual citizen is unclear". We believe that the UK Government should be urged to reconsider accession to the First Optional Protocol in order to guarantee effective and consistent protection of the full range of ICCPR rights to those living within its borders.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring



From My Picks:

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 19/6/2019)

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Greater London Authority: The Mayor of London's Rough Sleeping Team at City Hall breach Declan's rights by contacting St Mungo's on his behalf without his authority or consent (WITH UPDATE 20/6/2019)

From the update below:

"This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!"
-Don Collins, President of ISAF, an NGO dedicated to helping women

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).

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population". Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

Declan and I are housed in a flat that is part of the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative. Alongside our tenancy is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's. It has been acknowledged by the Greater London Authority in court papers that both Declan and I can live independently – we do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Our needs are solely related to the harassment, discrimination and intimidation we routinely face; see my post of 8 April, Threat to Life: Declan writes to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about the blockade across London on his volunteer applications notwithstanding his support from the Mayor-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 20/5/2019). The post contains Declan's email to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. Declan received a reply on behalf of the Mayor from David, who described himself as "part of the Rough Sleeping Team at City Hall with responsibilities for the Mayor's rough sleeping services". This David did not provide his surname and his only contact detail is the Mayor's at mayor@london.gov.uk. He basically ignored everything Declan had to say about the blockade across London on his volunteer applications and without authority or consent attempted to involve our landlord, Peabody Housing Association, in a serious legal dispute between Declan and St Mungo's (see update). This is Declan's stage 1 complaint to the GLA:

Housing and Land
Greater London Authority

Address removed for email


19 June 2019

Dear Housing and Land,

Please treat this email as my stage 1 complaint to the GLA.

Last month David (surname not provided below) of the Rough Sleeping Team at City Hall asked St Mungo's to contact me with a view to liaising with my landlord, Peabody. This could have, and in fact may have, created problems for both me and my wife. I was engaged in a serious legal dispute with St Mungo's at the time.

David breached my rights by contacting St Mungo's like this without my authority or consent.

I request that you uphold my complaint. I further seek assurance that the GLA will make no further contact with St Mungo's on my behalf without my consent.

Yours faithfully,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

Last year St Mungo's made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed, it left Declan gob smacked. He subsequently spoke with Diane Taylor, the journalist covering the story for the Guardian.

EU freedom for rough sleepers infringed - shock horror. https://t.co/RuJKrSEiTm

— Andrew Martin (@devonprof) May 14, 2018

UPDATE 20 June (10.35am): The GLA aims to respond to a complaint within 20 working days. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman service has informed Declan that the Authority has three months to respond before they will look into anything. On 5 June I posted St Mungo's: Declan's email to CEO Howard Sinclair of this Mayor of London-commissioned charity further to pre-action letter dated 26 April 2019 (WITH UPDATE 20/6/2019). The update to the post reveals that five days after Declan's pre-action letter, on 1 May, St Mungo's once again inputted outrageous notes into their electronic case management system without his knowledge or consent. It also quotes Don Collins, President of the Washington DC-based International Services Assistance Fund, who observed: "This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!" The notes were only removed by this Mayor of London-commissioned charity last Friday, and the notes below that were agreed upon last April updated on their system.

Declan taught PE in Glenstal Abbey, one of Ireland's top schools.

Declan fought for almost four months for agreed-upon notes to be inputted into the St Mungo's electronic case management system. Among a whole host of other problems, the last two action notes were missing from a barely legible image attachment of notes that Declan received on 1 May (see para. 9 of Particulars of Claim here).

18 February 2019[1]
Met with Declan at his home today at 3pm on 18 February. On 1 February Declan and TST North came to an agreement regarding support going forward. Marc: Send supporting email to Sense.

6 March 2019[2]
Marc: Supporting email sent to Sense.

15 March 2019[3]
Met with Declan at his home today at 3.30pm on 15 March. Meeting following Declan's interview with Sense on 7 March. Marc: Enhanced supporting email sent to KEEN London containing up-front reference to Declan's former homelessness.

22 March 2019[4]
Marc: Contacted KEEN London. Volunteer coordinator is due to return next week and shall contact regarding supporting email.

2 April 2019[5]
Marc: Contacted KEEN London. Spoke with volunteer coordinator and waiting for application to be forwarded.

____________________________
1-3 These three notes were agreed upon during said meeting of 15 March 2019.
4-5 The wording of these latter two action notes was agreed upon by email on 17 April 2019.

Don Collins is also Declan's professional referee. Below is Don's reference dated 8 September 2018. It is somewhat understated, in that our Church and State website now has 57 Nobel Laureates on it, as well as a distinguished list of 233 Honorary Associates that includes 15 Nobel Laureates and eight knighted professors. (These figures were lower last September when, for example, we had two Nobel Laureates listed as associates.)

Donald A. Collins, President
International Services Assistance Fund
5620 Oregon Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20015
[information withheld]
FAX [number withheld]
eMail [address withheld]

September 8, 2018

To Whom It May Concern:

I have become aware that my colleague, Declan Heavey, a highly educated professional, has come to need a reference for Newham Council (Active Newham) to find him voluntary work within Newham with children and adults with learning disabilities in a sport setting.

Declan's credentials for this sort of voluntary work are impressive. He is an accredited UK Athletics assistant coach with a DBS certificate for such a voluntary position. He is also a former physical education teacher, who has taught in one of Ireland's top schools (Glenstal Abbey) and set up and ran an unprecedented national network of 26 summer schools called Adventure Ireland that catered for over 4,000 children aged 6-14.

I have read with interest a Republic of Ireland newspaper article about Adventure Ireland that speaks of an admirable 'reconciliation scheme' for the involvement of a large number of children from Northern Ireland. Under this scheme, southern locations catered for children from Northern Ireland accompanied by experienced youth workers known by the children themselves. I understand and have no doubt that this scheme attracted considerable local media coverage both sides of the border between the two countries.

Declan manages an extensive website to which many contribute significant articles that bear on the general welfare of people everywhere. The site gets hundreds of thousands of hits and is a favorite of mine and many Nobelists. In fact, the site has no less than 40 Nobelists on it, as well as a distinguished list of 183 Honorary Associates to date that includes 2 Nobelists and 7 academics with knighthoods under the British royal honors system.

I have met Declan and known him for more than 7 years and I can attest to his strength of character. He is an outstanding and active citizen with a great commitment to community. He is highly responsible, loyal and trustworthy, and has exceptional organisational and management skills. I am pleased to report that my association with him has convinced me that he would provide a worthy addition to serving children and adults with learning disabilities in a sport setting.

Should you wish for more information from me, kindly email me at this address.

Sincerely,　

Donald A. Collins



From My Picks:

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 20/6/2019)

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Mailtrack Daily Report 18/6/19: 14 emails sent, 7 unread

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).

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Our local MP (Labour) acknowledged by autoreply this complaint last April about the interception of our email, but hasn't responded to it.

Rt Hon Lyn Brown MP
Member of Parliament for West Ham

Address removed for email


21 April 2019

Dear Ms. Brown,

As my local MP, I am forwarding to you an email I have received this afternoon from a close colleague about his concern that my and my wife's emails are being blocked. I would be most grateful if you could please let me know if you can be of any assistance in correcting the outrageous manipulation of my and my wife's email in undermining our part-time jobs as employees of Network for Church Monitoring.

In April 2010, an American professor wrote to then Minister Lynne Featherstone: "I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference." An (unsuccessful) application I subsequently made to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in 2011 has had absolutely no effect, and if anything the situation has gotten substantially worse. For some details, please see my wife's updated blog post here.

I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

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 19/6/2019)

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'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

St Mungo's: Declan's email to CEO Howard Sinclair of this Mayor of London-commissioned charity further to pre-action letter dated 26 April 2019 (WITH UPDATE 19/6/2019)

From the update below:

"This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!"
-Don Collins, President of ISAF, an NGO dedicated to helping women

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).

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population". Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).

County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice

Heavey v St Mungo's (2016)

Trial held in the Central London County Court, Royal Courts of Justice on 20 February 2017.

On 23 August 2018, Declan complained to the Information Commissioner's Office about case notes St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson assured the Court at trial in February 2017 had been rectified by him but were in fact being held under my name. It took the scheduling of a preliminary hearing in October 2016 to have case notes from two meetings so-called rectified by Williamson as Declan had requested all along; and that rectification only took place after a failed attempt by an international firm of solicitors, Osborne Clarke, to have Declan's claim struck out on the papers. The judge at the preliminary hearing dismissed St Mungo's application to strike out Declan's claim for compensation. DJ Avent's order dated 11 March 2017 does not state why he dismissed the claim at trial. Williamson: "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." We do not accept that the court was not misled (see paragraph 4 of new Particulars of Claim here).

4 January: Information Commissioner: Declan battles the Commissioner's Lead Case Officer over the nature of his data complaint against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 31/1/2019) What an experience!

We are not being discriminated against? Declan and I are housed in a flat that is part of the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative. Alongside our tenancy is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's. It has been acknowledged by the Greater London Authority in court papers that both Declan and I can live independently – we do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Our needs are solely related to the harassment, discrimination and intimidation we routinely face. I have updated my post of 21 May, St Mungo's: Will every member of the Board of Trustees of this Mayor of London-commissioned charity ignore Declan's pleadings for the Central London County Court? His case to be filed in the Court without further notice (WITH UPDATE 5/6/2019). The post reveals Declan's email to all 11 members of the Board of Trustees of St Mungo's over two weeks ago. Nonetheless, St Mungo's CEO Howard Sinclair continues to breach protocol by neither resolving nor replying to Declan's pre-action letter dated 26 April 2016; and now also his pleadings for the Court. Declan concludes this morning's summary email to Sinclair by saying: "It is morally reprehensible and completely unacceptable that I should again be forced to file pleadings in court against St Mungo's in an effort to receive fair treatment and put a stop to the above systematic violations of my rights." This is that email for Declan's court bundle:

For the attention of Dominic Williamson, Executive Director of Strategy and Policy, St Mungo's

Howard Sinclair
CEO
St Mungo's

Address removed for email


5 June 2019

Dear Mr Sinclair,

I am writing further to my pre-action letter dated 26 April 2019, to which I have not received a reply. Please find attached the agreed-upon notes herein referred to.

I have been fighting for over three months for notes from the first of two unrecorded meetings, held on 18 February 2019, to be inputted into your Opal system as agreed with St Mungo's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) during the second unrecorded meeting over two months ago. In total there are five short notes that were agreed upon between me and TST Caseworker Marc Appleton. Nonetheless, St Mungo's is refusing without explanation to input these notes into Opal as agreed. There should be no reason why these five short agreed-upon notes cannot be inputted into Opal in the same manner as those notes already in the system.

On 1 May 2019, Mr Appleton sent me a barely legible image attachment of notes. I had to use a screenshot programme to crop the text and then blow up various parts of the image to make out the content of these notes. They contain inaccurate and misleading information and reveal, inter alia, prejudicially selected and edited email correspondence in direct contravention of my expressed wishes relating to emails and/or their attachments being used as notes. These notes contain so many problems that I am not attempting to deal with them all here. One of the notes states that I want "to explore training and potentials for LD volunteering". This note is not just vague but untrue. Since the beginning of February 2019, I have not wanted to explore training whilst looking for meaningful long-term voluntary work based on the training I have already done, most recently within the last year.

Another note states: "[F]orwarded email to Sense re; volunteering opportunities - particularly in E13/east London vicinity." This note not subtly implies that I was overly restrictive in my dealings with Sense. This could not be further from the truth. Mr Appleton's supporting email to Sense actually stated that I was prepared to travel to another borough for this sort of voluntary work. Mr Appleton also sent a supporting email to KEEN London on 15 March and made two follow-up phone calls. On 2 April 2019 he wrote: "I spoke with volunteer coordinator at Keen this morning and am waiting for promised e mail application to be forwarded." This information and the two phone calls made by Mr Appleton are nowhere mentioned in the notes he sent me over a month ago.

I have repeatedly requested that those notes be deleted, to seemingly no avail. If they have already been inputted into Opal, my Support Agreement has clearly been breached. This Agreement not only establishes that my support is voluntary, but specifies that "any notes recorded from our meetings will be action notes, these will be brief notes recording any actions agreed by all parties in the meeting". It further states: "The main purpose of the action notes is to record outstanding actions agreed by both parties and then to record if these have been completed or not." On 24 January 2019, TST Service Manager Robert Buck wrote: "Moving forward all and any notes will be agreed upon by you and TST before inputting into our Opal system." It is therefore the case that not only would my Agreement have been breached, but this assurance would be rendered worthless if those notes have been inputted into Opal without my consent. St Mungo's TST will neither confirm nor deny the current status of them.

I received an email on 25 April 2019 from Mr Appleton stating that his Team Leader wanted "to arrange a meeting and ways forward". Please note that neither myself nor my wife is willing to vary, change or alter any of the terms of our support under our tenancy agreement. In fact, this is not the first time that St Mungo's has attempted to meet me rather than delete notes. On 10 January 2019, I responded to St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson, saying in part: "It is both unfair and unreasonable for you to expect me to meet with you when you will not explain what is preventing you from deleting notes that are held in clear violation of my rights." Those notes were eventually deleted without a meeting having taken place.

In a Witness Statement dated 14 December 2016, Mr Williamson wrote: "St Mungo's has an effective complaints procedure, which our clients can use to address problems they are having. Mr Heavey has bypassed this process and instigated litigation". There are substantial grounds for believing that there would be a real risk of ill-treatment for me by pursuing your complaints procedure. For over a year I have been battling St Mungo's from pillar to post to stabilise my and my wife's tenancy. First it was problems with the renewal of our tenancy agreement, which took over two months and the threat of court action to resolve. For over two months it was problems with inaccurate case notes, which got even more serious when I discovered that notes Mr Williamson assured the court had been rectified by him were in fact being held under my wife's name. For almost three months I battled St Mungo's for a TST caseworker such as my wife would eventually be assigned, during which time I also had to stave off enforced joint visits. In January of this year it was outrageous communication notes that were being held without my knowledge or consent since before our tenancy review in May 2018. Currently St Mungo's is refusing without explanation to input into your Opal system agreed-upon notes dating back to February 2019. And you have personally breached pre-action protocol by not replying to my letter before claim.

It is morally reprehensible and completely unacceptable that I should again be forced to file pleadings in court against St Mungo's in an effort to receive fair treatment and put a stop to the above systematic violations of my rights. It is indisputable that these violations have been regular and thoroughgoing, thereby qualifying as systematic. My ongoing battle against St Mungo's to stabilise my and my wife's tenancy can result in our eviction from our home. I cannot be expected to accept the continuance of such uncertainty since at the very least it impedes both my and my wife's freedom of action.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

Declan taught PE in Glenstal Abbey, one of Ireland's top schools.

Declan has been fighting for over three months over case notes. Among a whole host of other problems, the last two action notes relating to learning disability volunteering were missing from a barely legible image attachment of notes that Declan received on 1 May (see para. 9 of Particulars of Claim here).

18 February 2019[1]
Met with Declan at his home today at 3pm on 18 February. On 1 February Declan and TST North came to an agreement regarding support going forward. Marc: Send supporting email to Sense.

6 March 2019[2]
Marc: Supporting email sent to Sense.

15 March 2019[3]
Met with Declan at his home today at 3.30pm on 15 March. Meeting following Declan's interview with Sense on 7 March. Marc: Enhanced supporting email sent to KEEN London containing up-front reference to Declan's former homelessness.

22 March 2019[4]
Marc: Contacted KEEN London. Volunteer coordinator is due to return next week and shall contact regarding supporting email.

2 April 2019[5]
Marc: Contacted KEEN London. Spoke with volunteer coordinator and waiting for application to be forwarded.

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1-3 These three notes were agreed upon during said meeting of 15 March 2019.
4-5 The wording of these latter two action notes was agreed upon by email on 17 April 2019.

Last year St Mungo's made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed, it left Declan gob smacked. He subsequently spoke with Diane Taylor, the journalist covering the story for the Guardian.

EU freedom for rough sleepers infringed - shock horror. https://t.co/RuJKrSEiTm

— Andrew Martin (@devonprof) May 14, 2018

UPDATE 19 June (10.15am): You couldn't make it up! St Mungo's CEO Howard Sinclair breached protocol by simply not replying to Declan's pre-action letter of 26 April. Early last week Declan was shocked to learn that five days after his letter, on 1 May, this Mayor of London-commissioned charity once again inputted outrageous notes into their opal system without his knowledge or consent. Within hours of that discovery, he was assured that the next day all those notes would be taken down and the above agreed upon notes recorded verbatim. Only last Friday did this finally happen. Last January St Mungo's TST Service Manager Robert Buck wrote: "Moving forward all and any notes will be agreed upon by you and TST before inputting into our Opal system." This assurance regarding transparency and trust had already once been rendered entirely worthless. For it to have been rendered worthless twice in as many months would have beggared belief. Last Thursday Declan once again asked St Mungo's to explain why notes that stood in multiple breach of data protection law could not be removed from their system and those notes agreed between him and TST updated on the system. As Don Collins, President of the Washington DC-based International Services Assistance Fund, then observed: "This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!" The assault on our email of course continues with vengeance, according to Mailtrack. As mentioned in my previous post, 117 of our emails this month have not been read (seven from the day before yesterday), including three of Declan's reply emails to those who have agreed to be listed as Honorary Associates. One of these reply emails was to a winner of the Turing Prize, which is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in technology. We now have among our 233 Honorary Associates 15 Nobel laureates, two Turing laureates and eight knighted professors.



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12 July: Threat to life: Updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's highlighted

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Email interception: Only one of Declan's 29 emails to Nobel laureates yesterday has been read. From last week, three of his reply emails to those who agreed to be listed as Honorary Associates have gone unread (UPDATED 27/6/2019)

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).



Update 27 June (11.10am): From the emails above on 3 June, only two out of Declan's 29 emails to Nobel laureates have been read. So far this month, 154 of our emails have gone unread (34 from yesterday), including four of Declan's reply emails to those who have agreed to be listed as Honorary Associates. One of these reply emails was to a winner of the Turing Prize, which is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in technology. We now have among our 235 Honorary Associates 15 Nobel laureates, two Turing laureates and eight knighted professors.

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Our local MP (Labour) acknowledged by autoreply this complaint last April about the interception of our email, but hasn't responded to it.

Rt Hon Lyn Brown MP
Member of Parliament for West Ham

Address removed for email


21 April 2019

Dear Ms. Brown,

As my local MP, I am forwarding to you an email I have received this afternoon from a close colleague about his concern that my and my wife's emails are being blocked. I would be most grateful if you could please let me know if you can be of any assistance in correcting the outrageous manipulation of my and my wife's email in undermining our part-time jobs as employees of Network for Church Monitoring.

In April 2010, an American professor wrote to then Minister Lynne Featherstone: "I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference." An (unsuccessful) application I subsequently made to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in 2011 has had absolutely no effect, and if anything the situation has gotten substantially worse. For some details, please see my wife's updated blog post here.

I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

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 27/6/2019)

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18 May: SITE BLOCKS: Are full distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to be the new norm? SiteGound is paid $1,000 per year to host Church and State and manage the server (WITH UPDATE 26/6/2019: re 2,087th block since 26 July 2016)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/