Briefcase
Part of the rightsnet subscription service, briefcase provides user-friendly, fully searchable and cross referenced summaries of the latest welfare benefit and tax credit caselaw added to the website of the Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal (that incorporates, from November 2008, the work of the Social Security Commissioners).
Select from the options opposite - search by keyword, reference number, commissioner's / Judge's name, benefit, date, or a combination.
Latest summaries added
CIS/2729/2006 — Whether refusal of social fund funeral grant to prisoner breached human rights
Commissioner / Judge: Williams · 27 January, 2010
CH/978/2009 — Whether claim defective / information requirements
Commissioner / Judge: Mesher · 19 January, 2010
CPC/2352/2009 — Extent to which evidence of unlawful intention admissable in support of contention that property held on resulting trust
Commissioner / Judge: Turnbull · 02 February, 2010
CIB/1222/2008 — Findings of fact in relation to BAMS assessment and medical treatment
Commissioner / Judge: Ward · 27 January, 2010
CDLA/2228/2009 — Tribunal's assessment of evidence from nurse who had not seen claimant during relevant period
Commissioner / Judge: Lane · 26 January, 2010
CH/2873/2009 — Duty of tribunal to adjourn for oral hearing where claimant has requested paper hearing
Commissioner / Judge: Jacobs · 29 January, 2010
CJSA/589/2008 — Payment of income-related benefit where overpayment of tax credits recovered
Commissioner / Judge: Jacobs · 17 December, 2009
CH/1987/2009 — Extent to which local authority bound by DWP decision
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 18 January, 2010
CIS/997/2009 — Overpayment due to child's capital / duty to disclose and recovery where misrepresentation
Commissioner / Judge: Ward · 30 December, 2009
CIB/736/2009 — 'Old' regulation 27 of incapacity for work regulations / part time working
Commissioner / Judge: Turnbull · 04 January, 2010
CJSA/2280/2009 — Length of sanction following breaches of jobseeker's directions
Commissioner / Judge: Mark · 06 January, 2010
CH/1986/2009 — Absence from home / prisoner being treated for health problems
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 14 January, 2010
CDLA/1962/2009 — Duty to deal with claimant's justified fear about attending a tribunal
Commissioner / Judge: Williams · 30 November, 2009
CDLA/3255/2008 — Tribunal's consideration of unappealed component / substitution of award adverse to appellant
Commissioner / Judge: Lane · 02 December, 2009
CIS/1107/2009 — Duty to inform income support section of adverse incapacity decision
Commissioner / Judge: Turnbull · 02 December, 2009
CIB/3552/2008 — Competent EU state for benefit purposes / interpretation of Articles 1 and 13 of EC Regulation 1408/71
Commissioner / Judge: Ward · 09 November, 2009
CH/2103/2009 — Local authority's application of 20% taper to claimant's excess income
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 17 December, 2009
CIS/1549/2009 — Fair hearing / tribunal's adverse finding based on non-production of medical evidence
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 30 November, 2009
CH/225/2009 — Recoverable overpayment / requirement to calculate underlying entitlement
Commissioner / Judge: Lane · 11 December, 2009
CIB/2141/2009 — Quality of a medical examination and report by an overseas doctor based outside the United Kingdom but conducted on behalf of the DWP
Commissioner / Judge: Wikeley · 14 December, 2009
