Todays hearing went ok I think. If we lose the two main issues we certainly have scope to consider PoPs. The Commissions tenacity with reagrd to these final hearings still suprises me. It is as though the money “saved” was going into their own back pockets. Twice today they sought to introduce new “de novo” […]
Do you remember this CCA issue? The CC Chairman directed that we have the records translated into English and we duly did. Today the LSC have accepted these and further reduced the audit rating which is now tantalisingly close to a Category 1. A further hearing will be needed however.
A curious, though thoroughly satisfactory decision, on a CCA appeal reaches us today. Initially our written representations achieved a reduction to a Category 2 outcome from a Cat. 3 starting point. An agenda document containing only part of our representations followed which we subsequently challenged. These further representations concentrated upon the LSC seemingly substituting their […]
I have just had a phone conversation with a colleague who has also been involved in the circus which is Contract Compliance Appeals. Like me he is currently searching for the Holy Grail of this activity, a certified Point of Principle on general findings and extrapolation. With a mounting sense of deja vu on my […]
The difference in interpretation of Contract between Regional Offices continues to surprise me. I’ll save you the (somewhat dull) detail but how can polar opposites be argued at two different Cost Committees, 7 days apart, by LSC representatives? Fortunately I only have 3 ongoing CCA appeals left (and hopefully not many more to follow) and […]
The week begins with another piece of good news in the form of a further successful appeal against a termination notice. Do not however take this as a green light to go slow on franchise requirements, especially file reveiw. Off south again later today for another appeal hearing tomorrow. Will attempt a post from the […]
Another week another appeal hearing in London to prepare for. This is a fairly straight forward immigration CCA appeal (if there was ever such a thing). It is the one involving the issue discussed here. I am still finding it hard to see how this has gone to Committee not least that the LSC’s arguments […]
Earlier in the week we posed a question. For those awaiting the answer it is 8.1%. That’s right an initial audit rating of 84% reduced to single figures, an “acceptable” Category 1 outcome, on appeal. A massive relief for the firm but little compensation for the months of worry about the prospect that the practice, […]
Back from that London and the Supreme Court Costs Office – more of which tomorrow. Whilst on my journey home we received news of a CC hearing which took place just before Christmas. I posted about it here briefly. A sample of 20 immigration files was assessed by the national CC unit in London returning […]
One (free) working day to respond a two lever arch CCA appeal bundle so only a short post today. The main question raised in the appeal: Are Home Office interview notes recorded in the asylum seekers first language “illegible”, consequently inhibiting case progress ? No post on Monday as I am off to London on […]