James Ricketson
58 Braidwood Road
Goulburn 2580
0488543555
The Hon. Sophie Cotsis,
Minister for Industrial Relations
Minister for Work Health and Safety
GPO Box 5341
Sydney NSW 2001
15th. October 2015
Dear Ms Costis
I am writing to you in relation to an undated letter/email you sent to Hon Michael Daley MP Attorney General in which you mentioned my name.
Your message for the Attorney General is your response, as Minister (10 months down the track) to letters I sent to him on 18th. December 2024 and 20th. January. (see below)
In these letters I drew his attention to Ms. L’s battle with icare, the Personal Injuries Commission and C M and provided him (and hence, yourself) with the web address at which all the facts of this case can be found.
You have clearly not bothered to appraise yourself of the facts or, perhaps, have chosen to ignore them and hope that your letter to the Attorney General – an exercise in spin-doctoring – will provide him with a plausible ‘Get-Out-of- Jail Free’ card if this matter ever becomes a political embarrassment for the Minns government.
Your use of the expressions ‘I understand’ and ‘I am advised’ (classic politician weasel words) suggest that you are also providing yourself with a ‘Get-Out-of- Jail Free’ card: “If I had known the full facts of the matter, of course I would have acted...etc.”
If you did not know the full facts when you wrote to the Attorney General, you were not doing your job, and you can be added to the list of incompetents that have allowed this legal farce to continue this past five years.
The problem with C Ms’ claim is that it is a scam - as you would have discovered if you had taken into account the verifiable facts of the matter, of which there is an abundance.
Did the Attorney General instruct you to provide him with cover, or have you decided, of your own volition, to play the role of ‘spin doctor’? Yes, C M may well be suffering from a variety of genuine mental illnesses and addictions, but he is also a very clever con artist, as has been apparent to icare and the Personal Injuries Commission for several years now.
The most egregious piece of disinformation to be found in your letter to the Attorney General concerns Ms. L’s signing of the contract with icare. You either don’t know of the circumstances surrounding this signing or have chosen to ignore them:
icare held a gun to Ms. L’s head, making threats to her if she did not sign within a very brief time-frame. This was at a time when she had been advised by a medical professional NOT to sign contracts of any kind whilst she was in no position, emotionally and psychologically, to do so. icare was well aware of this but held the gun to her head anyway – keen to extract whatever money it could from a 70 year old woman whose career the insurer had destroyed, along with her mental health.
Both icare and the Personal Injuries Commission have demonstrated in their dealings with Ms.L not just incompetence but also a callous disregard for the well-being of an employer who tried to help a mentally ill man in need; a paranoid addict with a track record of scamming down on his luck. In this he was aided and abetted by a psychiatrist who wrote the report about the alleged bullying of Mr. M that icare relied upon to be convinced that Ms. L bullied him so badly that he could never work again. This report was based on one conversation that Dr. Oldtree Clark had with his patient on the telephone; a patient he never met and whose decades-long medical records regarding his various mental illnesses and addictions were not available to him.
You have now carried water for C M, for icare and the Personal Injuries Commission and provided the Attorney General, in this undated letter of yours, with the Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card he can play if this multi-million-dollar scam ever becomes public knowledge.
When politicians behave as you have here, it is small wonder that so many in the community do not trust them; that many hold politicians in contempt.
You have not done your job and are not fit for purpose as a Minister for Industrial Relations and Work Health and Safety
yours sincerely
James Ricketson
cc Premier Chris Minns
Michael Daley, Attorney General
icare
Personal Injuries Commission
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The Hon. Michael Daley, MP
NSW Attorney General
GPO Box 5341
Sydney NSW 2001 18th. December 2024
Dear Mr Daley
re xxxx Pty Ltd v Workers Compensation Nominal Insurer (icare)
I have written a dozen letters to Premier Chris Minns about this matter - the most recent of which was sent on 13th. December.
Whilst I have received electronic acknowledgement of receipt of these, and requested a reply to all, replies have not been forthcoming. None of my questions have been answered.
It seems as though the Premier’s office does not believe that this matter is worthy of any attention.
I am a filmmaker who was in the process of producing a film about Ms. L (a world renowned xxxx artist) two years ago when this matter was brought to my attention.
At the time of my first letters to icare and the PIC, in the interests of transparency, I identified myself as such, and as both a journalist and a friend of Ms. L's - wearing three different hats. To these I must now add fourth - that of a human being with a commitment to justice and fair dealing requesting that the NSW government do whatever it can to prevent what could well be, in the absence of intervention, a tragic outcome to this matter..
The five years that this case has dragged on has taken an enormous toll on Ms. L's physical, mental and emotional lives. I have witnessed her transformation from a smiling, energetic and ever-optimistic cake artist to a sad shadow of her former self - no longer able to create, to earn a living, and robbed of her peace of mind as she has been pursued and persecuted by icare on the basis of a fraudulent claim by Mr. M.
This matter has turned Ms L's life into a nightmare, and it is one that I fear could lead to the worst possible ending.
I have asked many questions of icare, the Personal Injuries Commission (PIC) and of the Premier and need not repeat these. They are all on record. I will mention one only.
This dispute began with the allegation of bullying by Ms. L of C M back in 2019. No evidence has ever been provided that any such bullying occurred, whilst there is an abundance of evidence of Mr. M's bullying of Ms. L.
Despite the lack of evidence, icare, with the blessing of the PIC, has instructed Ms. L that she must pay icare $130,000 as a result of what the PIC itself admits are merely 'allegations' - an amount that will not even cover the legal fees accrued by icare this past five years.
If this order is enforced it will leave Ms. L with no choice but to sell her only asset - her home of 40 years.
Given Ms. L's current condition, this matter needs to be dealt with urgently by yourself, and not merely with a form letter of receipt of this letter.
Please intervene, Mr. Daley, by asking both icare and the PIC to provide you with evidence that Ms. L ever bullied Mr. M. When you discover, as you will, that there is no evidence, please do whatever needs to be done to bring this matter to a just conclusion.
Some of the many other questions I have asked can be found at:
http://jamesricketson.blogspot.com
yours sincerely
James Ricketson
cc icare
PIC
ICAC
The Hon. Michael Daley, MP
NSW Attorney General
GPO Box 5341
Sydney NSW 2001 20th January 2025
Dear Mr Daley
re xxxxx Pty Ltd v Workers Compensation Nominal Insurer (icare)
Following on from my letter to you dated 18th. December 2024.
I have received neither an acknowledgement of its receipt, nor any response to it.
It seems as though the Office of the Attorney General, as with that of Premier Minns, does not believe that there is anything in this matter that is of concern - not the fact that we are now in the sixth year of what has been a financial and emotional disaster for Ms. L, and not the fact that no evidence has ever been produced that Ms. L bullied Mr. M.
I have uncovered some new aspects of this case that should be of serious concern to you, as Attorney General. You need to take a good hard look at the details of it with one question in mind: 'Has icare followed, adhered to, its own procedural rules and regulations?' I could help you with this, but I am sure (or hope) that there is someone in your office who can do their own research and discover why this case is nothing short of a legal farce.
I am certain if s/he were to deliver to you a report on what has happened here, what is continuing to happen, that you would do whatever you need to bring it to an end and, in the process, consider whether the key players in this legal farce are fit for purpose in the positions they hold in their respective organisations.
cheers
James Ricketson
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