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5 unusual facts about Ombudsman


Estate Agents Ombudsman

The Estate Agents Ombudsman is an Ombudsman in the United Kingdom which handles complaints against estate agents.

Kim Elton

Elton served in a number of staff positions in state government: he was a staff assistant to the Legislative Ethics Committee, an assistant State Ombudsman, Director of Policy for Lieutenant Governor Terry Miller, and as Executive Director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy

In 1988, the MCPON's spouse was made the Ombudsman-at-Large, authorizing her to travel around the fleet with her husband, representing the interests of the spouses of enlisted members.

National Association of Boat Owners

They were successful in taking British Waterways to the Waterway Ombudsman over the lack of consultation concerning boat licence fee increases.

Neil Comrie

In 2005, Comrie was appointed by the Commonwealth Ombudsman to investigate and report on the circumstances around the unlawful deportation of Australian citizen Vivian Solon to the Philippines.


Alan Marre

When the Court Line group collapsed in August 1974, complaints were made to the Ombudsman about statements made in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for Industry, Tony Benn.

Children's Ombudsman

The position of Authorized representative of the President of Ukraine for Children's Rights, or children's ombudsman, was allocated in August 2011 to Yuriy Pavlenko, who had served as Minister for Family, Youth and Sport in the Yekhanurov, Alliance of National Unity and Tymoshenko cabinets.

Clark Hoyt

He was the newspaper's third public editor, or ombudsman, after Daniel Okrent and Byron Calame.

Corruption in Papua New Guinea

There are nine public sector agencies which work with the NACA with the objective of combating corruption in the public sector: Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary, Public Prosecutor’s Office, Ombudsman Commission, Auditor General’s Office, Solicitor General’s Office, Department of Treasury, Department of Provincial and Local Government Affairs, Internal Revenue Commission, and the Department of Personnel Management.

Credit ombudsman service

COSL resolves disputes in a non-adjudicative means through conciliation, although the actual Ombudsman can make a decision which is binding on the member (a Determination).

Delia Parodi

The experience earned her a promotion as a local ombudsman in the Las Cañitas section of Palermo (today an upscale ward in Buenos Aires).

Dennis B. Funa

One complaint which would be the core of the criminal charges against Estrada and which would ripen to Criminal Case No. 26558 was docketed as OMB-0-00-1756 (Romeo T. Capulong, Leonard de Vera and Dennis Funa vs. Joseph Ejercito Estrada, Dr. Luisa “Loi” Ejercito, Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada, Charlie “Atong” Ang, Delia Rajas, Eleuterio Tan, and Alma Alfaro; see Victor Jose Tan Uy v. Office of the Ombudsman et al., G.R. No. 156399-400, June 27, 2008).

Donald E. Graham

In 1994, Graham was responsible for “a heavy blow to the newspaper’s credibility” (WaPo ombudsman on October 9, 1994), when he successfully lobbied Senator John Danforth for a special provision, favoring Washington Post Co.'s cell phone holdings, in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) treaty.

Fair Work Ombudsman

The Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman has offices located in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, Perth and many regional locations.

Financial Ombudsman Service

The United Kingdom's Financial Ombudsman Service is an ombudsman established in 2001 as a result of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to help settle disputes between consumers and UK-based businesses providing financial services, such as banks, building societies, insurance companies, investment firms, financial advisers and finance companies.

Gwen Ifill

The PBS ombudsman, Michael Getler, has twice written about the letters he's received complaining of bias in Ifill's news coverage.

Ian O'Doherty

In January 2014 the Press Ombudsman upheld a complaint against O'Doherty for a column in which he described members of the Roma community as "a parasitic, ethnic underclass".

Israel Gutierrez

While Gutierrez's column was labeled as "commentary," it received criticism from readers in Miami and throughout the U.S. The column even attracted a rebuke from his own newspaper’s ombudsman, Edward Schumacher-Matos, who wrote that the piece should never have been published.

JUSTICE

At the same time JUSTICE developed as a policy organisation, producing reports that helped establish the UK's Ombudsman system, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, the Data Protection Act 1998, and the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Legal Ombudsman

The current Chief Ombudsman and Chief Executive is Adam Sampson.

Luis López Álvarez

Starting in 1968 he worked for UNESCO as an international functionary of the United Nations and held various positions in Paris, Havana, and Caracas: Service Chief of Radio and Television in the Spanish Language, Regional Adviser of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Regional Director for the same region, Ombudsman in the Parisian headquarters and Coordinator, from Caracas, of the activities of the same organization in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Lukyanivska Prison

Ukrainian Ombudsman Nina Karpachova stated in September 2011 that while the facility was designed for 2,850 inmates, 3,800 were held there at the time; she also pointed out that 47 inmates with active tuberculosis threatened the health of other inmates and personnel.

Melbourne Custody Centre

Victorian Ombudsman George Brouwer has called for a review of MCC procedures after finding staff subjected the man to excessive force and "serious mistreatment".

Plan de Sánchez massacre

On 2 September 1996, Ombudsman Jorge Mario García Laguardia issued a historic resolution in which he denounced the massacre of Plan de Sánchez (and two others that took place in Rabinal the same year: Chichupac and Río Negro) as crimes against humanity, laid the blame for them firmly at the feet of the government and the military, and said that they had been carried out as part of a premeditated state policy.

Quezon Avenue MRT Station

Quezon Memorial Circle and Triangle Park can also be accessed from this station where a few government buildings stand like the PAGASA Complex, Office of the Ombudsman, Court of Tax Appeals and the Lung Center of the Philippines.

Ramon Tikaram

Tikaram is the great-nephew of Sir Moti Tikaram who was the first Lord Chief Justice of an independent Fiji and the world's longest serving national ombudsman.

Ria Oomen-Ruijten

In her nomination, Oomen-Ruijten said, "I believe that these are times where the bond between the EU and its citizens must be further reinforced so that, through access, transparency and renewed dialogue, the citizens of the EU can not only maintain a sense of understanding, trust and partnership with the EU, but also recommit to a European vision and a European common future." (4) She lost the election in the final round to the Irish Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly.

Robert R. Spano

In August 1998 he was employed as a legal adviser in the Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman of Iceland and was appointed Deputy to the Ombudsman in 2001, serving in that role until 2004.

On January 1st, 2009, the Praesidium of Parliament appointed Professor Spano as Parliamentary Ombudsman of Iceland in a provisional capacity as the elected Ombudsman, Mr. Tryggvi Gunnarsson, was asked to serve in a special investigatory commission into the banking crises in Iceland.

Professor Spano served as Parliamentary Ombudsman until 1 July 2010, but continued to serve as Ombudsman on an ad hoc basis in 2011 and 2012.

SPSO

Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, an ombudsman responsible for looking at complaints made about public services

Teimumu Kepa

Ro Teimumu Kepa is the widow of Sailosi Kepa, a former high commissioner to London, minister of justice and attorney general (1988–1992) who went on to become a High Court judge, Ombudsman, and first chairman of Fiji's Human Rights Commission.

The Herd with Colin Cowherd

Eddie Guerrero's Death - In November 2005, Cowherd was criticized by former ESPN ombudsman, George Solomon for his treatment of the death of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Eddie Guerrero.


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