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 case law 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
3 February
CI/2599/2010 — Reduced earnings allowance / whether claimant's existing disablement assessment meant that incapacity for regular occupation arose from industrial accident — [2011] UKUT 383 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Lane · 03 February, 2012
CDLA/2174/2010 — Whether failure by tribunal clerk meant that tribunal decision wrong in law / whether tribunal justified in holding paper hearing where claimant had said would only attend as observer — [2011] UKUT 388 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Parkes · 03 February, 2012
1 February
CIB/419/2011 — Weight to be given to WCA report by registered nurse — [2011] UKUT 385 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Ovey · 01 February, 2012
25 January
CIS/2249/2010 — Burden of proof on Secretary of State to show that son living with claimant / tribunal duty to consider adjournment — [2011] UKUT 387 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Parkes · 25 January, 2012
CDLA/3194/2009 — Importance of ensuring that case-management directions carefully, and accurately, drafted — [2011] UKUT 320 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Rowland · 25 January, 2012
24 January
CDLA/463/2011 — Need for tribunal to be clear on Secretary of State’s grounds for supersession of existing award — [2011] UKUT 414 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Rowland · 24 January, 2012
23 January
CIS/102/2011 — Cohabitation / tribunal's reasons for finding claimant's account implausible / whether marriage valid — [2011] UKUT 335 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Rowland · 23 January, 2012
CPC/3150/2008 — Whether claimant had right to reside as dependant of daughter who was dual UK and Polish national / ECJ decision in McCarthy — [2011] UKUT 382 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Jacobs · 23 January, 2012
CIS/2890/2009 — Right to reside / whether claimant was self-employed and/or permanently incapable of work / whether necessary to have right to reside before incapacity — [2011] UKUT 401 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Jacobs · 23 January, 2012
CIS/291/2011 — Whether claimant aquired leave to remain at date of immigration tribunal's decision or when her passport was stamped — [2011] UKUT 373 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Jacobs · 23 January, 2012
CDLA/134/2011 — Overpayment / when claimant could have been expected to know change in medical condition constituted change of circumstances — [2011] UKUT 336 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Rowland · 23 January, 2012
20 January
CE/1217/2011 — Whether tribunal right to assess claimant as though he normally used a crutch — [2011] UKUT 449 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Levenson · 20 January, 2012
8 December 2011
CE/398/2011 — Whether claim for ESA was, in law, claim for income support due to linking rules — [2011] UKUT 447 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 08 December, 2011
7 December 2011
CI/1565/2010 — Competent state for purposes of Article 57 of EC Regulation 1408/71 / whether there is relative test of siginficance of exposure to risk in different states — [2011] UKUT 448 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Ward · 07 December, 2011
5 December 2011
CJSA/828/2011 — Human rights where claimant did not fulfil contribution conditions as formerly self employed / approach of UT where only remedy is declaration of incompatibility — [2011] UKUT 428 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Turnbull · 05 December, 2011
7 November 2011
CP/3638/2006 — Uprating of category B pension paid to widow resident abroad — [2011] UKUT 324 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Paines · 07 November, 2011
CTC/2520/2010 — Whether child tax credit exportable within EU where claimant in receipt of state retirement pension — [2010] UKUT 322 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: White · 07 November, 2011
CE/330/2011 — Tribunal duty to consider holding oral hearing of appeal — [2011] UKUT 334 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Mesher · 07 November, 2011
1 November 2011
CH/3472/2005 — Claimant who had died / whether appeal could be heard where there was no appointee — [2011] UKUT 305 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Rowland · 01 November, 2011
CH/3452/2005 — Housing benefit for claimants in ‘supported living facility’ — [2011] UKUT 304 (AAC)
Commissioner / Judge: Rowland · 01 November, 2011
