Briefcase

Part of the rightsnet subscription service, briefcase provides user-friendly, fully searchable and cross referenced summaries of the latest commissioner's decisions added to the Social Security and Child Support Commissioners' website.

Select from the options opposite - search by keyword, reference number, commissioner's name, benefit, date, or a combination.

Latest summaries added

CDLA/2372/2007 — Need for papers relating to previous award to be before tribunal

Commissioner: Deputy Commissioner Ovey · 15 May, 2008

CIS/3101/2007 — Overpayment / whether sums accumulated from fostering fee and Boarding Out Allowance are capital

Commissioner: Jacobs · 03 April, 2008

CIS/3486/2007 — Overpayment / adequacy of computer records as evidence that information sent to claimant

Commissioner: Deputy Commissioner Mark · 03 April, 2008

CHR/3855/2005 — Right of appeal to a commissioner against a decision of a legally qualified panel member of a tribunal to refuse to admit a late appeal

Commissioner: Tribunal of Commissioners · 04 July, 2008

CDLA/3839/2007 — Refusal to walk and entitlement to the higher rate of the mobility component

Commissioner: Jacobs · 08 May, 2008

CIB/1381/2008 — Use of hindsight in assessing whether operation or therapeutic procedure likely within three months of medical examination

Commissioner: Williams · 18 June, 2008

CI/732/2007 — Whether vaccination injections can be industrial accidents

Commissioner: Mesher · 30 May, 2008

CPC/3396/2006 — Refugee backdating and the European Convention on Human Rights

Commissioner: Bano · 03 April, 2008

CH/4014/2007 — Whether local authority can make cohabitation decision where claimant in receipt of income support

Commissioner: Deputy Commissioner Ovey · 23 May, 2008

CIS/4299/2007 — Permanent right to reside under European law / whether time spent as a jobseeker counts

Commissioner: Jacobs · 23 May, 2008

CIS/1934/2006 — Retention of worker status after time away from the labour market

Commissioner: Rowland · 28 April, 2008

CG/37/2008 — Overpayment recovery / instructions given to claimant / whether appeal in time

Commissioner: Wikeley · 19 May, 2008

CF/2826/2007 — Determination of priority between competing child benefit claimants

Commissioner: Turnbull · 11 March, 2008

CSIB/164/2008 — Assessment of 'substantial risk' not only limited by reference to previous employment

Commissioner: Parker · 25 April, 2008

CJSA/63/2007 — Length of sanction where claimant left job voluntarily after four weeks

Commissioner: Rowland · 19 May, 2008

CPC/3992/2007 — Payment of housing costs where loan taken out during period of backdating

Commissioner: Deputy Commissioner Wikely · 20 May, 2008

CIS/3232/2006 — A8 nationals in work for more than a year / whether work needs to be 'registered'

Commissioner: Rowland · 12 March, 2008

CDLA/3585/2007 — Relevance of Disability Discrimination Act / whether effects of medication should be taken into account

Commissioner: Mesher · 04 April, 2008

CPC/3373/2007 — Offsetting losses from self-employment against other income / grounds for superseding tribunal's decision

Commissioner: Deputy Commissioner Poynter · 04 April, 2008

CJSA/980/2006 — Right to reside / advance awards / entitlement as workseeker

Commissioner: Rowland · 09 April, 2008


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