Caselaw summaries

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - trusts – whether discretionary or not – liferent trusts with power to advance capital

Jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) - sanction – failure to participate in work scheme – alleged refusal to confirm identity

Right to reside – retaining worker status for involuntary unemployment after less than a year’s work

‘Vulnerable’ adults and tribunals – Practice Direction of the Senior President of Tribunals requires tribunals to ‘consider how to facilitate the giving of any evidence’ by (among others) a vulnerable adult

Inadequate response to tribunal by Secretary of State – tribunal needs to act fairly towards the claimant

Personal independence payment (PIP) - mobilising – using a car – need to consider all of journey

Right to reside – extension of worker registration scheme from 2009 to 2011 unlawful – permanent right to reside

Jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) - overpayment – misrepresentation where claim form unavailable – tribunal use of different recovery ground from that of Secretary of State

Industrial injuries – tribunal found claimant did not come within prescribed disease (PD) A11

Right to reside – Portuguese family member of dual European Economic Area (EEA)/British citizen