Thanks for your prompt reply.

Please refer me to the documentation which lists grounds upon which the CICA may dismiss applications. Upon receipt of this I shall sanction your $39 payment.

Regards XXXXX XXXXX Burke

A reasoned answer would have secured payment.

Relist: Answer quality.
It is not a property type question so please direct it to a lawyer versed in UK tortious remedies.
Cheers XXXXX XXXXX

Revisiting a trauma such as a horrific assault, even indirectly, is very often anathema to the victim, to such an extent that filling in a compensation claim form can simply be too much to bear - witness the trickle of Holocaust survivors who returned to Poland to reclaim their homes and possessions; again examine the rape statistics where only a fraction of raped women report their attackers to the police, even less that for men who have been male raped. Same with battered wives - here we find most put up with their injuries rather than suffer the further awefulness (indignity) of being 'put through it all again'; few sue their attackers.

I have no idea why Mrs Harrington did not insist that her son signed his compensation claim form. Perhaps knowing the dread the memory of the assault still held for him she did not wish to bring it up more than was needed ... after all, who on earth would think that her signing her son's name to commence his claim for compensation which could if granted go only to him would be sufficient and just cause to later deny him his lawful right to compensation.

Some years ago a good friend of mine was hospitalised for around six weeks and then confined to bed for many weeks after he was discharged. He had been repeatedly stabbed and beaten with a pool cue by three attackers and had almost been killed. After he'd left hospital I reminded him time and time again that he ought to get solicitors started on his claim but he never did ... he answered me each time that he wasn't ready and would make the claim when he felt a bit better about it, that he was still not up to doing anything about it. Sadly, he never did feel well enough and now the time to present a claim has long expired. Unable for years to confront what he experienced even enough to fill in a form about it, he missed out on a six figure compensation figure. To this date he has not come to terms with what happened to him.

Mrs Harrington did what most mothers would do. Your colleague termed her writing her son's signature as "forgery" despite no hint on her part of any wrongful intent. You now say you agree with her despite the Law's insistence that for a writing to be legally classed as "forgery" it must have been accompanied by the necessary element of "mens rea".

Since there was no forgery in Law, please tell me the grounds in Law for Denver Harrington's claim being 'turned down'?

Thanks for your reply,
please refer me to where I can find CICA application guidelines to enable me to check whether parental or other agental signatures are listed as grounds to deny relief. Upon receipt of this I shall sanction your $39 payment