Interesting question...
Mostly I agree with Steve but he says "We point out they should not have got sent in the first place...", which is what Murph's question is aimed at achieving.
The difficulty for me in the approach is the possibility that by attempting to get an exemption before the PCA comes up, you might actually prompt it and of course there are no guarantees that a DM will grant exemption anyway.
However, one of the problems of delaying is that the report might become out of date and worthless. Therefore, if the evidence is so good that refusing an exemption will be hard to justify and the risk to the claimant of having to undergo the PCA is great then I think I would probably give it a go - having made the client aware of the risk and taking a fresh instruction from him.
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