We've just received a decision of Commissioner Parker (CSIB/69/03), which I'm about to post to Shawn Mach for publishing on RightsNet. With regard to the mental health descriptors, Mrs Parker's view is that the duration of the interview and examination, while not determinative in itself, "surely it may be relevant as an indicator that the examination was not properly conducted."

Hopefully Shawn will be kind enough to publish this decision in due course.

thanks to steven ... here's a copy of the decision

http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/pdfs/CSIB_69_2003.pdf

cd now on the cmmrs website, and a summary is available in the briefcase area of rightsnet @

http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/cgi-bin/publisher/display.cgi?1715-0104-6214+swopshop#CSIB/69/2003

nb - for future reference, briefcase is available from the 'what's new' section on the home page

In reference to CSIB/69/2003 - the decision makes reference to two other CSIB/450/03 and CIB/0908/2003. However it would appear that neither of these has been uploaded to the OSSCSC website yet.

Does anyone have a copy of these decisions? Or can provide a summary of them?

Cheers.

CIB/0908/2003 is available from

http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forum/appeals/445.html

and a summary of that decision is @

http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/benefits/comm_up/cib_0908_2003.htm

Cheers for that... admittedly I should have spotted Commissioner Jacob's decision and the rep flaming :/