Public Service and Local Government




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LGO (York office) Policy not to give a full and proper reasons for their decisions

Evidence donated by Trevor Nunn

During 2005 an investigator working for the Local Government Ombudsman's York office, stated,

(The conversation was recorded and the text below is verbatim)

"I think there is a short coming sometimes in just the way our system works and that there is a tendency often not to, I mean well I have been criticised myself by the Ombudsman in the past for giving too detailed reasons to complainants because that can be a hostage to fortune and indeed it can."


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