Briefcase
Part of the rightsnet subscription service, briefcase provides user-friendly, fully searchable and cross referenced summaries of the latest welfare benefit and tax credit caselaw added to the website of the Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal (that incorporates, from November 2008, the work of the Social Security Commissioners).
Select from the options opposite - search by keyword, reference number, commissioner's name, benefit, date, or a combination.
Latest summaries added
CDLA/216/2009 — Mobility component / use of shopping trolley as artificial aid
Commissioner: Lane · 20 May, 2009
CSIB/261/2009 — Judicial Review application in Scotland / whether can be made direct to the Upper Tribunal
Commissioner: May · 21 May, 2009
CTC/3692/2008 — Calculation of backdated awards of child tax credit for a refugee
Commissioner: Jacobs · 28 April, 2009
CH/3495/2008 — Overpayment recovery where decision made whilst claimant bankrupt
Commissioner: Mesher · 21 April, 2009
CIB/3788/2008 — Fair hearing / limit to tribunal's inquisitorial function
Commissioner: Wikeley · 31 March, 2009
CH/3524/2008 — Date that decision on supersession takes effect / undeclared receipt of DLA
Commissioner: Jupp · 28 April, 2009
CH/1615/2008 — Eligible rent / sum payable in respect of bedroom for overnight carer
Commissioner: Turnbull · 10 February, 2009
CDLA/371/2009 — Delay in request for statement reaching tribunal chair / extension of time to appeal to Upper Tribunal
Commissioner: Ward · 26 March, 2009
CTC/2608/2008 — Refusal of child tax credit to substantial minority carer / whether discrimination can be justified
Commissioner: Jacobs · 04 February, 2009
CIB/3117/2008 — Whether claimant's insistence on tape recording medical examination constitutes a 'failure to submit'
Commissioner: Wikeley · 23 March, 2009
CDLA/59/2009 — Advance award / relationship between regulations 6(8) and 13A of the Claims and Payments Regulations
Commissioner: Jacobs · 19 March, 2009
CI/190/2009 — Declaration of industrial accident / proper constitution of tribunal
Commissioner: Lane · 19 March, 2009
CIB/4281/2006 — Preferring EMP's opinion to that of claimant's GP and physiotherapist / tribunal's use of formulaic reasons
Commissioner: Rowland · 27 March, 2009
CH/3698/2008 — Claimant previously owned dwelling / relevance of continuity of residence
Commissioner: Jacobs · 31 March, 2009
CG/1546/2008 — Carer's allowance / whether PAYE liability if benefit paid should be taken into account in assessing entitlement
Commissioner: Bano · 03 February, 2009
CIB/3499/2008 — Activity 5: rising from a chair / relevance of type of chair / standard options on computerised IB85
Commissioner: Ward · 02 February, 2009
CIB/3598/2008 — Agoraphobia / whether claimant suffering from a severe mental illness involving the presence of mental disease
Commissioner: Lane · 10 February, 2009
CH/3801/2008 — Need for local authority to produce copy of decision / whether submission writer's statement was evidence
Commissioner: Jacobs · 09 February, 2009
CH/426/2008 — Capital / money placed in foreign joint bank account by someone other than claimant
Commissioner: Williams · 11 February, 2009
CP/2862/2007 — R(P) 1/09 Pension rights of transsexuals
Commissioner: Tribunal of Commissioners · 13 March, 2008
