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Decision Report 201809267

  • Case ref:
    201809267
  • Date:
    March 2021
  • Body:
    Live Borders
  • Sector:
    Local Government
  • Outcome:
    Not upheld, no recommendations
  • Subject:
    Complaints handling

Summary

C complained that Live Borders had failed to deal with their complaint appropriately. We found that it had been reasonable for the organisation not to pursue contact with witnesses who C had referred to and to instead ask that C obtained statements from them. We also found that the organisation had reasonably investigated the matter and had issued a reasonable response to C's complaint. Whilst there was a clear disagreement between C and the organisation about what had happened, there was no evidence that the organisation did not intend to conduct a genuine investigation or that they supplied dishonest and false information to C. We did not uphold the complaint.

Updated: March 24, 2021