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Another great start to a UT decision
CDLA/922/2017 starts -
Introduction
1. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.
Judge Wikeley again but this time a DLA overpayment which he had already seen -
[ Edited: 25 Sep 2017 at 09:13 am by Daphne ]3. Indeed, I was so concerned that in my ruling granting permission to appeal on the first time around appeal, I described the case as a “car crash”. Moreover, taken together with its companion appeal, JF v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (DLA) [2015] UKUT 266 (AAC), I described it as a “mini motorway pile-up” (see [2015] UKUT 266 (AAC) at paragraph 9, citing paragraph 4 of the permission ruling). It only gets worse second time around.
4. That description of the First-tier Tribunal’s conduct of the case might be thought by some to be a touch over-melodramatic. But it has undoubtedly got worse. Unusually, I am almost lost for words.