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22 February, 2021

Court of Appeal considers whether to hear appeal on points of law not previously raised by HMRC

[2021] EWCA Civ 174

18 December, 2020

Court of Appeal rules that government acted unlawfully in barring EU citizens from relying on ‘pre-settled status’ to access universal credit

[2020] EWCA 1741

15 September, 2020

Court of Appeal rejects challenge to increase in women’s state pension age

[2020] EWCA Civ 1199

19 August, 2020

Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland rules that provisions allowing widowed parent's allowance to be suspended when claimant began to cohabit, and to be terminated when she remarried, were not unlawful

[2020] NICA 15

11 August, 2020

Denial of bereavement support payment to family of a deceased woman who had been unable to work and pay NI contributions due to severe disability breached ECHR

[2020] NICA 36

1 July, 2020

Court of Appeal rules that UK was not competent Member State in case where claim for carer’s allowance was made by claimant who had moved to Cyprus having lived and worked in UK

[2020] EWCA Civ 809

22 June, 2020

Court of Appeal rules that Work and Pensions Secretary acted irrationally and unlawfully by failing to adapt earned income assessment rules to account for impact on certain universal credit claimants

[2020] EWCA Civ 778

12 May, 2020

Court of Appeal rules that failure to provide transitional protection for claimants who transferred to universal credit following incorrect legacy benefit decision was unlawful

[2020] EWCA Civ 618

29 January, 2020

Court of Appeal upholds High Court judgments that failure to protect income of severely disabled claimants migrating to universal credit is unlawful

[2020] EWCA Civ 37

4 December, 2019

Court of Appeal decides not to exercise discretion to hear academic case on DHPs and orders claimant to pay local authority’s costs

[2019] EWHC 371 (Admin)

24 June, 2019

Entitlement to bedroom under regulation B13 must be determined objectively without reference to physical practicality of accommodating category of actual occupants

[2019] EWCA Civ 1080

17 May, 2019

Meaning of 'income' in pension credit notional retirement pension income rules when value of pension plan is less than claimant’s contributions

[2019] EWCA Civ 839

16 April, 2019

Court of Appeal holds that two-child limit is not incompatible with rights under Articles 8, 12 or 14 of European Convention on Human Rights

[2019] EWCA Civ 615

7 March, 2019

Court of Appeal rules that objective evidence is critical when deciding the ‘genuine and sufficient link’ test for disability benefits

[2019] EWCA Civ 272

31 January, 2019

Regulations delaying PIP award in transfer cases are not discriminatory and cannot be interpreted to lead to earlier award dates in change of circumstances cases

[2019] EWCA Civ 15
Reported as [2019] AACR 15

15 October, 2018

Northern Ireland Court of Appeal rules that Commissioner correctly assessed ESA activity 14 (coping with change) descriptors against the backdrop of the modern workplace

[2018] NICA 29

23 April, 2018

To show that assistance qualifies as social support requires evidence as to nature, frequency and effect / established relationships do not need to be long term or regular

[2018] EWCA Civ 851

20 March, 2018

Court of Appeal rules that tribunals do not have the power to disapply or ignore bedroom tax regulations

[2018] EWCA Civ 548

15 March, 2018

Court of Appeal rules that the benefit cap does not unlawfully discriminate against lone parents with children under two

[2018] EWCA Civ 504

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