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Lifting a pan on/off the hob
Just to play devil’s advocate here and give you some food for thought (pun intended) as to the kind of arguments you might face:
- Presumably the assumption would be that the pan can be emptied incrementally once it has cooled.
- In terms of the ‘reasonable time period’ argument, I suspect that the argument would be that although the isolated task filling the saucepan may take more than twice as long as it would for an able-bodied person, it wouldn’t mean that the overall task of cooking a meal would necessarily take twice as long. Reg. 4 looks at whether the activity as a whole takes more than twice as long, not whether one constituent part takes twice as long.
Certainly not trying to undermine your case in any way, just thinking of the arguments you’ll be likely to encounter.
Cheers
Alex
Try para 17 of Moyna - ( https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/2003/44.html ) where it was held that the ‘cooking test’ for DLA was a’thought experiment’ .
To my recollection this usually disposed of the dreaded ‘slotted spoon’ argument but whether this might apply to PIPS is arguable
“- Presumably the assumption would be that the pan can be emptied incrementally once it has cooled.”
*Awaiting an “unslotted” spoon decision*
Unexpectedly relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory
“- Presumably the assumption would be that the pan can be emptied incrementally once it has cooled.”
*Awaiting an “unslotted” spoon decision*
😂