Peabody Trust (day 2): Our second gas safety check within 3 weeks was cancelled yesterday and then rescheduled for today. They say they have the power to shut off our home gas supply for a missed call out
Almost all the images posted in this blog post had to be transferred to an alternative host website for rectification. In MediaFire, a lot of the images in this Church and State blog have still not been restored to their true size. We had before MediaFire images deleted and exchanged but the extent of this amplification is new to us. I will be writing to them about this in due course.
DAY 332 IN A WEEKLY PERIODIC TENANCY
SUBJECT TO A 'NO FAULT' SECTION 21 NOTICE
MAYOR OF LONDON RSI PROPERTY
14/04/20
With the background as provided above, the Heaveys now are facing an eviction notice from their landlord, Peabody Trust housing association. The tenancy is a flat, which falls under the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative. Pardoning my intrusion into English law, but in fairness there does not appear to be any reason for the eviction, relying apparently entirely on the discretion of the landlord.
Joseph R. Carvalko, Esq., American lawyer (full letter here)
Our Church and State website has no less than 60 Nobel Laureates on it despite the never-ending assault on our email; see paragraph 2 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar (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
We're back dealing with the issue of our heating - this time for almost a week. Last February our landlord, Peabody Trust housing association, informed Declan that they can shut off our home gas supply for a missed call out. On Friday he had it confirmed by text that our second gas safety check in less than three weeks would go ahead yesterday. That appointment was cancelled by voice mail while we were waiting for the contractor and then rescheduled for today. We're still waiting for this contractor to turn up.
On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 15:06, Declan Heavey wrote:
8 April 2021
Dear Peabody Servicing,
Thank you for your letter dated 6 April 2021 (attached).
I have phoned TSG and explained that Mears carried out our Annual Gas Safety Check on 24 March 2021 (two weeks ago). They were not aware of this fact and are looking into the necessity of another gas safety check on 12 April 2021. I have told them that I have not received a text message confirmation of my appointment next Monday, but that I will keep this appointment if I do not hear back from them.
Yours sincerely,
Declan Heavey
71 Queens Road West
London E13 0PE
Mobile: ************
17 February: Peabody Trust (day 2): Declan has been advised to be available from 8am to 8pm daily until such time as the appointment they missed yesterday has been cancelled. They say they have the power to shut off our home gas supply for a missed call out
We live under the threat to life of a no fault eviction and have no pro se (in person) access to the courts
The Central London County Court is based at the Royal Courts of Justice.
The following is the full content of paragraphs 3 and 4 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar that has been updated today.
3. This is Day 332 for us living under the legal threat 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 a destabilised 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 the landlord. 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 is currently battling the Information Commissioner's decision on how St Mungo's is now processing our personal data.
30 June 2020: District Judge Ruth Fine orders Declan to pay £1,850 in costs. St Mungo's are under no obligation to even vouch over the phone that we are clients of the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's TST programme (WITH UPDATE 02/04/21)[1]
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[1] Part of the Mayor of London's RSI programme in our case is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's.
The Central London County Court is based at the Royal Courts of Justice.
The following is the full content of paragraphs 3 and 4 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar that has been updated today.
3. This is Day 332 for us living under the legal threat 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 a destabilised 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 the landlord. 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 is currently battling the Information Commissioner's decision on how St Mungo's is now processing our personal data.
30 June 2020: District Judge Ruth Fine orders Declan to pay £1,850 in costs. St Mungo's are under no obligation to even vouch over the phone that we are clients of the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's TST programme (WITH UPDATE 02/04/21)[1]
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[1] Part of the Mayor of London's RSI programme in our case is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's.
Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 5330050/20. On 16 October 2020, our flat door on the 2nd floor was vandalised by two thugs with a crowbar. Declan and I were in the flat at the time and fortunately our double locked door held firm. It's my opinion that they just wanted to break the door lock but didn't have enough time. The communal door lock downstairs wasn't broken, and on 11 November 2020 that lock was changed. Our flat door was repaired by a security contractor on 1 December 2020 with silicone sealant and glue gun. The police closed the case within two days of the crime due to a lack of evidence.
10 April: Pixsy (day 151): I have found Declan's Motion to Dismiss to fight their threatened court action in an article titled "Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling". No sooner had we heard from them than they were named and shamed by Computer Weekly and it's a truly sickening read
Beware the use of "free" photos off the internet - they may not be as free as you think, thanks to automated image recognition tools and dubious use of Creative Commons licensing- as targets of one German photographer found out to their cost: https://t.co/64ryecBz1v
— ComputerWeekly (@ComputerWeekly) November 18, 2020
Laptop interference: These past eleven weeks it's been cuts to the targeted laptop from the internet and Dowload speed as low as 0.11 Mbps (0.04 Mbps Upload speed 22.03.21)
The targeting of one or more of our four operational laptops kicked off again in December 2020. It's either cut the targeted laptop(s) from the internet (nines times last week) or slow down speeds to anything from 74 Mbps to a fraction of 1 Mbps.[1] For four weeks it was an average 5 Mbps on Declan's primary laptop until 26 March, when it was 71 Mbps, the first time over 70 Mbps since last December (3 Mbps today). With his secondary laptop, it was an average 20 Mbps for three weeks until 26 March, when it was 61 Mbps, one of the few times over 60 Mbps since last December (35 Mbps today). Seldom have two laptops been treated the same way at any one time, unless we have been cut off the internet altogether for anything up to 7 days to date. This month is a record-breaking fifth consecutive month for this sustained targeting of one or more of our laptops. (Last Tuesday was the second day since last December that Declan had two laptops functioning above 50 Mbps.)
7 February 2019: The targeting of our two primary laptops runs into a record-breaking third month. My primary laptop has been targeted for over three months (WITH UPDATE 23/12/20)
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[1] The sustained cutting of Declan's secondary laptop from the internet continued throughout the morning of 2 April (nine cuts in total) as he updated with two laptops the Futurism section of our Church and State website for Rumelhart Prize laureates. Last week we had the honour of listing a third Rumelhart Prize laureate as an Honorary Associate. The Rumelhart Prize was founded in 2001 to introduce the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for cognitive science.
The targeting of one or more of our four operational laptops kicked off again in December 2020. It's either cut the targeted laptop(s) from the internet (nines times last week) or slow down speeds to anything from 74 Mbps to a fraction of 1 Mbps.[1] For four weeks it was an average 5 Mbps on Declan's primary laptop until 26 March, when it was 71 Mbps, the first time over 70 Mbps since last December (3 Mbps today). With his secondary laptop, it was an average 20 Mbps for three weeks until 26 March, when it was 61 Mbps, one of the few times over 60 Mbps since last December (35 Mbps today). Seldom have two laptops been treated the same way at any one time, unless we have been cut off the internet altogether for anything up to 7 days to date. This month is a record-breaking fifth consecutive month for this sustained targeting of one or more of our laptops. (Last Tuesday was the second day since last December that Declan had two laptops functioning above 50 Mbps.)
7 February 2019: The targeting of our two primary laptops runs into a record-breaking third month. My primary laptop has been targeted for over three months (WITH UPDATE 23/12/20)
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[1] The sustained cutting of Declan's secondary laptop from the internet continued throughout the morning of 2 April (nine cuts in total) as he updated with two laptops the Futurism section of our Church and State website for Rumelhart Prize laureates. Last week we had the honour of listing a third Rumelhart Prize laureate as an Honorary Associate. The Rumelhart Prize was founded in 2001 to introduce the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for cognitive science.
TV interference: Seventeen days these past eleven weeks it's been 0% Signal Quality and that includes three days in a row each week for two weeks running (then it's been particular free view channels that are unwatchable, today included)
2 January: We have once again lost all free view channels using our second BT TV YouView box (day 4). This time it's on an on-off basis and by far more off than on. Four cuts during this period on what's left on HDMI input without these channels. We have had three BT engineers in our flat to date to no avail. No equipment, phone line or aerial fault detected. When we switch from HDMI to Antenna, we have always had and continue to have perfect reception on free view channels using our aerial.
6 January: British Telecom: No let up on inference on individual TV channels using our second BT YouView box. The blockade of Church and State emails has extended to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally. Pixsy's threat to Church and State remains open and ongoing
2 January: We have once again lost all free view channels using our second BT TV YouView box (day 4). This time it's on an on-off basis and by far more off than on. Four cuts during this period on what's left on HDMI input without these channels. We have had three BT engineers in our flat to date to no avail. No equipment, phone line or aerial fault detected. When we switch from HDMI to Antenna, we have always had and continue to have perfect reception on free view channels using our aerial.
6 January: British Telecom: No let up on inference on individual TV channels using our second BT YouView box. The blockade of Church and State emails has extended to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally. Pixsy's threat to Church and State remains open and ongoing
From My Picks:
10 April: The Equality and Human Rights Commission have advised Lyn Brown MP that they will not accept a referral from her. Why must the Commission's helpline (EASS) distort Declan's claim of discrimination against the landlord? (previous post)
Our list of 298 Honorary Associates includes 19 Nobel Prize laureates, 13 US National Medal of Science laureates, 4 US National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureates and 12 knighted professors notwithstanding the excessive targeting of these categories of emails in particular. (Last month we had the honour of listing as associates two US National Medal of Science laureates and a fifth Turing Award laureate. The Turing Award is generally recognised as the highest distinction in computer science, or the "Nobel Prize of Computing".)
http://churchandstate.org.uk/honorary-associates/
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