Briefcase
Part of the rightsnet subscription service, briefcase provides user-friendly, fully searchable and cross referenced summaries of the latest commissioner's decisions added to the Social Security and Child Support Commissioners' website.
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Latest summaries added
CPC/3396/2006 — Refugee backdating and the European Convention on Human Rights
Commissioner: Bano · 03 April, 2008
CH/4014/2007 — Whether local authority can make cohabitation decision where claimant in receipt of income support
Commissioner: Deputy Commissioner Ovey · 23 May, 2008
CF/2826/2007 — Determination of priority between competing child benefit claimants
Commissioner: Turnbull · 11 March, 2008
CG/37/2008 — Overpayment recovery / instructions given to claimant / whether appeal in time
Commissioner: Wikeley · 19 May, 2008
CIS/1934/2006 — Retention of worker status after time away from the labour market
Commissioner: Rowland · 28 April, 2008
CIS/4299/2007 — Permanent right to reside under European law / whether time spent as a jobseeker counts
Commissioner: Jacobs · 23 May, 2008
CSIB/164/2008 — Assessment of 'substantial risk' not only limited by reference to previous employment
Commissioner: Parker · 25 April, 2008
CJSA/63/2007 — Length of sanction where claimant left job voluntarily after four weeks
Commissioner: Rowland · 19 May, 2008
CIS/3232/2006 — A8 nationals in work for more than a year / whether work needs to be 'registered'
Commissioner: Rowland · 12 March, 2008
CPC/3992/2007 — Payment of housing costs where loan taken out during period of backdating
Commissioner: Deputy Commissioner Wikely · 20 May, 2008
CDLA/3585/2007 — Relevance of Disability Discrimination Act / whether effects of medication should be taken into account
Commissioner: Mesher · 04 April, 2008
CPC/3373/2007 — Offsetting losses from self-employment against other income / grounds for superseding tribunal's decision
Commissioner: Deputy Commissioner Poynter · 04 April, 2008
CJSA/980/2006 — Right to reside / advance awards / entitlement as workseeker
Commissioner: Rowland · 09 April, 2008
CPC/204/2006 — Housing costs / supersession following finalisation of estimated service charges
Commissioner: Bano · 17 April, 2008
CIS/3611/2007 — Amount of overpayment recoverable where child's capital exceeds £3,000
Commissioner: Mesher · 23 April, 2008
CDLA/1797/2007 — Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder / weighing evidence of school and parent
Commissioner: Jupp · 08 April, 2008
CDLA/2991/2007 — Cooking test and nausea
Commissioner: Mesher · 10 April, 2008
CIB/2619/2007 — Treated as incapable of work as a result of severe mental illness / stabilising effect of medication
Commissioner: Mesher · 03 April, 2008
CP/1183/2007 — Whether provision for unequal state retirement ages for men and women breaches Human Rights Convention
Commissioner: Turnbull · 12 March, 2008
CH/3586/2007 — Meaning of 'relevant authority' in the context of official error overpayment
Commissioner: Deputy Commissioner Whybrow · 27 March, 2008
