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 / Judge's name, benefit, date, or a combination.
Latest summaries added
CDLA/3255/2008 — Tribunal's consideration of unappealed component / substitution of award adverse to appellant
Commissioner / Judge: Lane · 02 December, 2009
CIS/1107/2009 — Duty to inform income support section of adverse incapacity decision
Commissioner / Judge: Turnbull · 02 December, 2009
CIB/3552/2008 — Competent EU state for benefit purposes / interpretation of Articles 1 and 13 of EC Regulation 1408/71
Commissioner / Judge: Ward · 09 November, 2009
CH/2103/2009 — Local authority's application of 20% taper to claimant's excess income
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 17 December, 2009
CIS/1549/2009 — Fair hearing / tribunal's adverse finding based on non-production of medical evidence
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 30 November, 2009
CH/225/2009 — Recoverable overpayment / requirement to calculate underlying entitlement
Commissioner / Judge: Lane · 11 December, 2009
CIB/2141/2009 — Quality of a medical examination and report by an overseas doctor based outside the United Kingdom but conducted on behalf of the DWP
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 14 December, 2009
CIS/3770/2008 — Severe disability premium / whether claimant's son 'normally residing' with her
Commissioner / Judge: Jacobs · 10 December, 2009
CA/905/2009 — Whether discriminatory not to allow claimant over the age of 65 to claim disability living allowance
Commissioner / Judge: Lane · 02 December, 2009
CJSA/3003/2008 — A8 nationals / whether certificate of registration of employment is retrospective
Commissioner / Judge: Ward · 17 November, 2009
CDLA/1961/2009 — Date of decision / lower rate mobility component where claimant got lost but could find way home / reasoning in relation to alcoholism
Commissioner / Judge: Levenson · 11 December, 2009
CIS/408/2009 — Right to reside / A8 national with temporary admission working at time of Accession
Commissioner / Judge: Jacobs · 12 November, 2009
CIS/1023/2009 — Whether tribunal permitted to question claimant about spent conviction
Commissioner / Judge: Turnbull · 26 November, 2009
CJSA/1511/2009 — Length of sanction where claimant lost place on work experience training through misconduct
Commissioner / Judge: Turnbull · 01 December, 2009
CH/3829/2008 — Whether arrears of wages income or capital / official error / period over which arrears should be attributed
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 26 November, 2009
CIS/184/2008 — Right to reside / whether EU national can retain worker status as a workseeker without claiming jobseeker's allowance
Commissioner / Judge: Three-Judge Panel · 18 December, 2009
CDLA/496/2006 — Whether mobility component exportable as a result of EC Regulation 1408/71
Commissioner / Judge: Mesher · 15 December, 2009
CH/761/2007 — Overpayment recovery / whether both landlord and agent can be liable where benefit paid direct to agent
Commissioner / Judge: Mesher · 26 November, 2009
CIS/976/2009 — Young person / whether boyfriend's father 'acting in place of parent'
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 25 November, 2009
CA/313/2009 — Retrospective self funding / suspension or termination of benefit / whether to revise or supersede a decision
Commissioner / Judge: Mesher · 06 November, 2009
