27 days between incident and notice

Umkomaas

moosty_moo wrote: »

Actually, I do disagree quite strongly with your point of view.
I think you're, maybe, confusing victims and making the whole experience bigger than it should be. I would have been quite happy to go with this 1 point and test it - there is no way they could get away with it.
Simplicity is the King with anything.
And if POPLA did knock it back, then, I would have laughed - with a clenched fist
I don't care about going to court, I've been to small claims a few times and found it fine. The whole point is that if it does go to court - keep it simple and make it easy for the judge to make a decision.
Just deal in facts that the judge can decide on.

But you were actually going to appeal just on the PoFA issue and it was the first paragraph of your (multi-point) appeal. The assessor, whilst acknowledging you raised the issue, leap-frogged over it and upheld on GPEOL, so you have no evidence that PoFA on its own would have won this for you.

When you first posted, you weren't telling us that 'if POPLA did knock it back, then, I would have laughed - with a clenched fist' or that you 'don't care about going to court', many new posters are extremely worried and need to be sure they ain't gonna end up in court. For us to recommend 'stick in a simple one-trick appeal point to POPLA, and laugh if it doesn't work for you', and 'if you're taken to court, keep it simple and leave it to the Judge to make a decision', would be foolish in the extreme. The overwhelming majority want as near a foolproof approach as possible to getting the monkey off their backs as quickly as possible. And the insurance for this is to do it the way we recommend - we've advised hundreds on this and have had no complaints, yours aside, so far.

However, there's no reason why, now you've had experience of the process, you can't join us on here and help with advising newbies. It would be interesting to see how your alternative method might improve on the 100% record we have in the approach we have so far recommended.

Anyway - well done on your win at POPLA :T