Caselaw summaries

Tribunals – risks of drawing inferences from the medical treatment that a claimant has (or has not) received), and from fact claimant had not been issued with aids and appliances

Tribunals – claimant with physical injury and dizziness – tribunal erred in not weighing claimant’s evidence and not making clear findings of fact, but instead in rejecting the appeal having strayed into speculating about whether the claimant’s needs actually arose from choice and ‘traditional roles’ in the claimant’s family, a matter on which it heard no evidence

Tribunals – claimant with ADHD and dyslexia – tribunal erred in proceeding with a telephone hearing without considering whether that was fair and whether reasonable adjustments, including allowing his mother to assist him, could be made

PIP – claimant with ASD, ADHD and PTSD – tribunal erred in basing finding that claimant’s fatigue did not result from a health condition on fact that claimant was able motivate herself to work for 37.5 hours a week

Personal independence payment – activity 9 (engaging with other people face to face)

Personal independence payment – claims

Personal independence payment – supersession of current award

Personal independence payment – need to rest before starting an activity and to rest between activity

Personal independence payment daily living activity 1 (preparing food)

Personal independence payment (PIP) – tribunals – irrelevant questioning and perceived bias