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15 July, 2020

Secretary of State should, where relevant, provide claimant’s ESA adjudication history and action plan in appeal response to First-tier Tribunal

RP v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (ESA)
[2020] UKUT 148 (AAC)
CE/2506/2018

14 July, 2020

Unfair to proceed with tribunal hearing where putative appointee was not permitted to participate fully / application for leave to appeal should be put before a judge

SB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 198 (AAC)
CPIP/2336/2019

14 July, 2020

Tribunals can only set aside decision under rule 37 of Procedure Rules on the written application of a party / application for statement of reasons or record of proceedings cannot be treated as an application for set aside

MA v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 172 (AAC)
CPIP/2140/2019

14 July, 2020

Interaction of activity 9 - engaging with other people face to face - and regulation 4(2A) - ability to carry out an activity reliably

JT v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 186 (AAC)
CPIP/1781/2019

13 July, 2020

Tribunal's decision awarding PIP can be superseded by Secretary of State on grounds of new medical evidence under regulation 26 / nature of supersession under regulation 26 and relationship with PIP regulation 11

BD v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 178 (AAC)
CPIP/2110/2019

8 July, 2020

High Court holds that special rules for terminal illness, in case where claimant cannot demonstrate their death can be reasonably expected within six months, are ‘discriminatory' and 'manifestly without reasonable foundation'

Cox, Re Application for Judicial Review [2020] NIQB 53

3 July, 2020

Payment of non-static houseboat licence fee is an eligible cost for housing benefit purposes as it falls within regulation 12(1)(b) of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

AB v London Borough of Camden (HB)
[2020] UKUT 158 (AAC)
CH/3284/2017

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

Konevod v Secretary of State for Work And Pensions [2020] EWCA Civ 809

26 June, 2020

Restricting tribunal’s consideration to ‘circumstances obtaining at time of decision under appeal’ does not limit consideration to evidence that was before the first instance decision maker

KK v Liverpool City Council (HB)
[2020] UKUT 80 (AAC)
CH/1766/2019

25 June, 2020

Whether First-tier Tribunal’s enforcement reference to Upper Tribunal, relating to Secretary of State’s failure to comply with direction to provide summary of ESA adjudication history, was valid

RG v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Enforcement Reference)
[2020] UKUT 79 (AAC)
ENF/1494/2019

24 June, 2020

Claimant whose inability to use public transport arose entirely from physical health problems was not entitled to points under mobility descriptor 1(d)

HO'H v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 135 (AAC)
CPIP/302/2019

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

Secretary of State for Work And Pensions v Johnson & Ors [2020] EWCA Civ 778

22 June, 2020

Meaning of ‘spouse’ under widowed parent’s allowance rules / whether possible to reinterpret under HRA to include partner married in ceremony that is not compliant with English marriage law

AR v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (BB)
[2020] UKUT 165 (AAC)
CG/1781/2017

16 June, 2020 Open access

High Court rules that government decisions on Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and changes to statutory sick pay were not unlawful in relation to ‘limb b workers’

Adiatu & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v Her Majesty's Treasury [2020] EWHC 1554 (Admin)

15 June, 2020

High Court rules that exclusion of mixed-age couples from pension credit is not discriminatory or in breach of the public sector equality duty

Prichard, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2020] EWHC 1495 (Admin)

10 June, 2020

Whether tribunal properly concluded that entitlement to any rate of PIP was issue raised by appeal of supersession decision that only reduced entitlement / proceeding with appeal hearing in absence of presenting officer who had been directed to attend

DT v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 156 (AAC)
CPIP/2152/2019

2 June, 2020

Rule limiting entitlement to sure start maternity grant when claimant already responsible for child aged under 16 breached human rights of refugee and kinship carer

SK and LL v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (IS)
[2020] UKUT 145 (AAC)
CIS/620/2019 & CIS/2245/2018

1 June, 2020

JSA requirement to be ‘living in’ the Common Travel Area for three months is not invalid under EU law

CL v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2020] UKUT 146 (AAC)
CJSA/1053/2019

26 May, 2020

Tribunal unable to disapply legislation with unintended lacuna relating to revision or supersession of PIP awards in DLA transfer cases where claimant aged over 65 / extra-statutory payment made to claimant

RJ v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 107 (AAC)
CPIP/1962/2018

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