Welfare Rights Adviser/Trainee Solicitor, Thorpes Solicitors, Hereford Member since 03rd Feb 2005
Ultra Vires PCA Descriptors Wed 28-Jun-06 08:35 AM
Can any one point me to a summary/idiots guide to the status of each individual descriptor post Howker et al? I'm sure that I've seen such a document recently but the memory might be a delusion of my caffiene soaked brain...
Links to summaries of 13 post-Howker commissioner decisions can be found by doing a key word search for 'Howker' in the briefcase section of rightsnet.
These include the two 'conflicting' decisions that a tribunal of commissioners has now been convened to consider - R(IB) 3/04 and CSIB/148/2005.
Forthcoming decisions of Tribunals of Commissioners ...
Vires of 1997 amendments to Incapacity for Work Regulations
CSIB/803/2005; CSIB/818/2005
A Tribunal of Commissioners has been convened to consider the question of the validity of the amendment to activity 14 (remaining conscious) in the Schedule to the Social Security (Incapacity for Work)(General Regulations), to resolve the conflict between R(IB) 3/04 and CSIB/148/05.