Caselaw summaries

Sure Start maternity grant – refugee with ‘pre-flight’ child – breach of human rights by ‘first-child only’ rule

Tribunals – not limited to judicial review considerations or evidence in existence at time of decision

Enforcement reference to Upper Tribunal under rule 7(3) of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Social Entitlement Chamber) Rules – following DWP failure to comply timeously with direction from Upper Tribunal to provide adjudication history in the claimant’s case

Right to reside – where a British national has worked in another European Union member state and ‘genuinely’ resided there with a family member

Tribunals – claimant transferred from maximum award of disability living allowance (DLA) to personal independence allowance but awarded only the standard rate of the daily living component

Housing benefit (HB) – revision or supersession for failure to comply following suspension of benefit

Child benefit and right to reside – claimant was a jobseeker and the ‘genuine chance of being engaged in employment’ test applied to her

Medical evidence of publicly discredited assessor – to be given no weight

Child benefit – claimant not entitled under domestic law or European Union (EU) law

Social fund funeral payment – deduction from award of lump sum due from insurance policy on death of deceased