This decision is referred to on page 736 of volume one of "Bonner" Social Security Legislation 2004 (Sweet and Maxwell). I can't find the decision anywhere including the OSSC website and the Scottish Commissioner's office say they have no decision by that reference. Just wondering if this is a typing error in Bonner. Has anyone else tried to use or located this decision?

I also cannot find this anywhere online.

Commissioner Parker does have another decision CSIB/377/2003, which is available on the OSSC website which concerns the issue of when a tribunal should put an inference to a claimant. This is not quite the same point as that in Bonner and the decision basically says that it is not always necessary to put an inference to a claimant for comment(provided the rep hears the evidence and the negative conclusion that can be drawn from it is obvious). Although the appeal by the claimant in that case was dismissed there is some good stuff in the decision that can be used where the Tribunal have drawn an inference of lack of credibility from evidence the meaning of which was not obvious (ie where what the claimant said was ambiguous or could be interpreted in two ways).

Deputy Commissioner Wikeley allowed a case I was involved in where I argued on that basis and made the comment "the representative is not a mindreader".