Sentence examples for ombudsman before from inspiring English sources

"I was going nowhere and turned to the ombudsman, before Barclays offered me £200; it's not as much as all the charges but I decided to accept it.

Emily O'Reilly, who served as Ireland's ombudsman before taking the EU job in 2013, told the Guardian recently that the Barroso case would make the commission "deal with the revolving doors issue in a more serious way".

One of Finland's ethnic Swedes, he was parliamentary ombudsman in Helsinki before moving to his current job in 1995.

So the Norwegian consumer council took them before the ombudsman", Reyna says.

Lloyds TSB was having 98 per cent of its cases decided in favour of the consumer when they went before the Ombudsman in the first half of 2012, according to the latest statistics.

Barclays says that its 93 per cent consumer uphold rate before the Ombudsman "is a result of the fact that we were the first bank to offer gestures of goodwill payments to customers, which meant that we took back a large volume of claims from the [Ombudsman] … and proactively settled in favour of the customers in order to help the [Ombudsman]… clear a backlog".

This week, one small campaigning organisation from Nottingham which is in dispute with Lloyds TSB was told it would be at least another 12 months before an ombudsman would look at their case, four months after they first applied to the service.

Sir Hugh recommended the procedure in place in Northern Ireland, where all complaints against police went before an ombudsman, could be used elsewhere, as it was "a very effective system".

Dvorkin believes that the value of an ombudsman seems more urgent than ever before.

Newman, who spent 36 years at the Sun, rose from assistant news editor to become managing editor over many years before taking on the ombudsman role.

The Financial Ombudsman Service receives 4,000 new PPI cases a week, and Caroline Wayman, the chief ombudsman, said "it will be years" before anyone can truly say Britain's biggest ever financial mis-selling scandal is over.