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


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