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High Court decision in fraud case
Parkes v Department of Work and Pensions, newly published to BAILII, but decided in July 2012, looks at -
whether the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions had power to delegate the authority to issue a certificate of sufficient evidence under section 116(2)(a) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 to a lawyer or prosecutor;
if the certificates issued in their cases were not valid, when time began to run for the purposes of section 116(2)(a); and
were the certificates valid despite the fact that they do not expressly state that they were signed ‘by or on behalf of the Secretary of State’?