DLA - HRM - Child - Severe Eczema & Urticaria

Forthcoming appeal. Child has severe eczema , his skin cracks and blisters making walking painful. also has urticaria which flares up resulting in swollen joints making walking painful, urticaria has also lead to anaphylactic shock. Thinking aloud - Severe discomfort ? would R(DLA)6/69 prevent an award ? ” someone whose skin blistered in sunlight was held not to be virtually unable to walk even though he was in severe discomfort walking outdoors ” Effects of exertion ? - The eczema/urticaria make walking painful , not sure the exertion would be life/health threatening. Any thoughts ?

Cheers

No, I don’t think so. What the Court of Appeal held was that regulation 12 was not directed to the fact of being out of doors but to the physical act of walking. It is presumably painful to walk because of the child’s conditions, so no bar there-  just a case of getting the tribunal to accept VUTW!!!

Brian

is the child’s exzema this bad most of the time? I think that may be the difficult thing to show