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Disability benefit lawyer at Fightback4justice!
Hi I'm a Disability Benefit Lawyer and set up and run Fightback4justice a non profit community interest group that offers free initial advice and professional advocacy in DLA, pip and ESA appeals and other disability related matters. We have a free adviceline and drop in sessions and cover the whole of the UK with this. We are unfunded by grants etc so if you instruct us to advocate in person then there are basic travel/admin costs as we are mostly run by professional volunteers.
We attend the pip forum in London, liaise with tribunal daily and DWP and see changes as they occur. Find us on Facebook @fightback or ring 01716727444 for free phone advice. As an ex CAb benefit lawyer we know exactly the best way to apply or transfer over to PIP and have an excellent 89% success rate in court to date.
We attend the pip forum in London, liaise with tribunal daily and DWP and see changes as they occur. Find us on Facebook @fightback or ring 01716727444 for free phone advice. As an ex CAb benefit lawyer we know exactly the best way to apply or transfer over to PIP and have an excellent 89% success rate in court to date.
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I am sure that many will be glad to hear of your services
CR
Welcome to our online community /website.
You will be greatly received by a large number of members on here in regards to (PIP)
https://community.scope.org.uk/profile/Sam_Scope
I have just picked this one up on new members.
With the very large numbers off new members struggling with the (PIP System)
Can we please let this service better known ???
Great to hear another service fighting our corner
Cheers
Gizmo
Hi @fightback4justice.
Nice to hear there is a service help fighting 4 justice for disabled people. This is what we need.
How can I get contact to a lawyer ?
Thanks @Yadnad for your info & reply.
Have a good day.
@kafoleg
One becomes aware from time to time of organisations who charge erroneously claiming free advice is no longer available in an area in order to secure business. HMCTS also alert when reps pass themselves off as being from other organisations (sadly it has happened). There’s more than enough case work to go round forever more but people on fixed incomes should at least be very clear whether high quality free advice is available in their area before choosing to pay. Obviously in some areas that may not be practical and there’s a meaningful gap which paid advice may be the only way to bridge.
Finally most advice organisations make no claims about success rates as high success rates can imply that an organisation is cherry picking only the cases most likely to win. It impresses some people but is not the best or only measure of quality.
You pays your money you takes your choice, so to speak.
ants but i also googled the address and looked on google earth at the building it was correct but i also agree there are plenty out there taking cash for advice or claiming exsperts
Presumably they are working under that name for convenience purposes thus hiding their true identity.
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They are a registered charity and have submitted accounts and records to Companies House up to and including 2017.
They claim to have lawyers working which is certainly not meaning qualified solicitors.
They do make a profit which is then taken by the main shareholders as a salary effectively stripping the company of it's profit/reserves leaving only the second hand value of it's assets..
I don't judge, I have reported the facts
If people wish to pay their money to an unknown company then that is their choice. To accept 'feedback' or 'statements of support' as meaning that all must be good, you only have to look to TripAdvisor with the bogus claims that have been made in the past.
Sorry but my money would go to a qualified solicitor who specialises in benefit legislation.
I will cease any further comments on this matter but allow anybody that is interested in the company to decide for themselves
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09486035/filing-history
also of interest
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09486035/officers
I do know my job and stated correctly that there was no trace of a company by the name of Fightback4justice. I also said that there may well be another name for it. The correct and registered name is ADVOCACY FOR DISABLED PEOPLE CIC.
Fightback4justice is nothing more than a trading name.
Once the correct name had been established I accessed the records at Companies House which I have given a link to.
I never over step the mark, in fact I am quite diligent in searching out information that gives a better light on the matter. I have spent years working for the government accessing information from all manner of sources relating to directors and company worth.
The accounts that are listed shows the worth of the company. Look further and you will find that it has paid employees. Look further still and it clearly does make a profit which appears to be then paid to the directors.
I do not need to defend myself any further, the information is in plain sight in the links I have posted.
I doubt that threatening a poster with what they can and can’t post is the role of another poster. That’s a role for administrators.
The fact that one of you has had the outcome you desired should not be equated with good advice. Very few people on the receiving end of welfare rights advice have any objective clue as to whether they received good advice at all and I’ve seen many people use many services over the years who achieved outcomes they were very happy with where the service used means which were at best morally debatable. What I am saying has general applicability. You can say that your experience felt very good to you and got you your desired outcome but it’s not possible to say from that the advice was objectively accurate and that they are therefore excellent. They were excellent for you. No more. No less.
A good example of this is the horror show where some advice services or rogue advisers tell people to put down what they’re like on their worst day. This allows decision makers to conclude erroneously that they’re like that all the time and an award gets made. The claimant gets their desired outcome so all is rosy and they think the advice was great because of that. The claimant has skirted very close to fraud and may have actually done so. The agency aided that. There have been two prosecutions on that basis and I know at least one of them was successful.
I make no further comments
I would hope so
I know where they are in Tottington as I lived in that area of Lancashire.
If you are happy with their services that's fine. I was a little perturbed with some of their self styled descriptions of their company.
I would encourage you to read Pippa's recent post.
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