North East Lincolnshire Council

Finance Department
Civic Offices Knoll Street
Cleethorpes
North East Lincolnshire
DN35 8LN

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Grimsby
North East Lincolnshire
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28/07/14

Dear Sir/Madam

Re: Council tax Ref: 5500000000 15 March 2014 Formal Complaint

I refer to the councils stage 1 complaint response dated 24 July 2014 and would like to escalate this
matter to stage 2 of your complaints process.
After assessing its contents Im satisfied that the officer given responsibility for dealing with the
matter has not investigated it appropriately. The token gesture, which is all the response amounts to,
serves no purpose other than a back covering exercise for North East Lincolnshire Council (NELC),
for which it has shifted responsibility to the Magistrates Court. This is no less than I expected and
why I objected in March for the officer who has responded to be involved.
Unfortunately however, the negligence and corruption of the Magistrates Court and the Ministry of
Justice as a whole is another matter to be dealt with separately. It was therefore inappropriate that
NELC pointed the finger in that direction on this occasion.
The fact remains that the Liability Order was obtained solely for an element of the authoritys
standard summons costs. They have been demonstrated to be fraudulent, made possible courtesy of
a considerable helping hand from NELC by way of cabinet reports etc. and surprisingly its
incriminating calculation which supported my assertions that its expenditure did not comply with
the relevant law.
There is sufficient detail in my letters dated 15 March and 14 July 2014 for me not to need adding
further to it here. All that should be required is for the person next given responsibility to
investigate this complaint, does it properly.

However, there is another matter which needs raising regarding NELC and the amount of time it
wastes of the Council Taxpayer. The same officer allocated the task of dealing with this matter
made it known to me previously that the council do not take a stage 1 complaint seriously
considering it a test of the complainants commitment which is verified by him escalating it to the
next stage.

Yours sincerely

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