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severe mental impairment etc & Higher rate Mobility
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/AAC/2014/312.html
you will all love.
UT Judge Nicholas Wikeley:
“The Upper Tribunal’s conclusion on a point of law
2. Social Security Commissioner’s decision R(DLA) 2/96 has long been recognised as authority for the proposition that the human brain is fully developed before an adult reaches the age of 30. On that basis it has been consistently held that a person who suffers from what would otherwise be regarded as “a state of arrested development or incomplete physical development of the brain” does not qualify under the SMI rules if that condition first occurs after the age of 30 (e.g. as a result of traumatic brain injury). I refer to this as the “age 30 cut-off rule”. In the light of the expert evidence reviewed in this decision, I decide that the age 30 cut-off rule is no longer good law and R(DLA) 2/96 should no longer be followed in that respect”
looks like it’s CDLA/1079/2012
Nice one!
I have at least one client I can think of who could benefit from this.
Nice one!
I have at least one client I can think of who could benefit from this.
IDS?
Nice one!
I have at least one client I can think of who could benefit from this.
IDS?
Chortle!!
Now that really would be the Client From Hell wouldn’t it?
Quite right Chris. Point taken.
Very useful decision to go back to the original point of the thread. Shame it has come so late in the day as far as DLA is concerned.
I can’t believe that from DLA decision to UT it took 2009 to 2014!!!