Caselaw summaries

Tribunals – matters not raised by appeal and failure to give sufficient warning of less favourable decision

Disability living allowance (DLA) – severe mental impairment route to high rate mobility component – three-year-old with global development delay, autism spectrum disorder, stimming behaviour and mobility and sleeping issues

Human rights – local housing allowance and number of bedrooms allowed

Tribunals – incomplete audio recording of hearing – set-aside for material procedural irregularity

Housing benefit (HB) – overpayment – closed period supersession rather than termination for failure to provide information

Tribunals – appeal struck out for being made outside 13-month time limit

Tribunals – claimant and her representative attended the video hearing remotely from abroad without having applied for permission to do so

Tribunals – right of appeal – ‘any time’ revisions – ‘official error’ ground

Tribunals – jurisdiction – claimant requested a mandatory reconsideration (MR) of a UC decision regarding his housing costs – DWP responded by saying an ‘MR was not necessary due to a policy issue’, subsequently also said the decision was a necessary result of the legislation and suggested the claimant sought a discretionary housing payment

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