Caselaw summaries

Activities 1 (preparing food), 2 (taking nutrition) and 3 (managing therapy or monitoring a health condition)

Jobseeker’s allowance sanction for not attending Work Programme – post-Reilly and Wilson

Tribunals – ‘protective essays’ (ie, regarding what the tribunal views the law requires for adequate reasoning) in tribunal written statements of reasons

‘Vulnerable’ adult – brain injury leading to memory problems and fatigue – need to consider giving of evidence including from representative

Universal credit (UC) - minimum income floor – application to seasonal work – not unlawful

Tribunal composition – request for all-female panel – proceeding in claimant’s absence where there was no ESA50 in the paper

Tribunals – mother had provided detailed evidence of her view of her son’s disabilities - tribunal wrong to require corroborative evidence (from the GP) of what claimant’s mother had said – its job is to assess the evidence and it could not simply abdicate its role on the basis that corroboration was required – tribunal also erred in ignoring evidence from the claimant’s school

Child’s attention needs at night

Tribunals – proceeding in appellant’s absence

Universal credit (UC) - sanction – failure to apply for job – claimant considered application would be pointless