Caselaw summaries

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - permitted work – averaging earnings – irregular hours under a zero-hour contract

Evidence relating to previous disability living allowance (DLA) award – claimant needed someone to guide or supervise him outside – clearly an overlap with previous award of DLA lower rate of mobility component and tribunal should have had that before it

‘Natural’ migration to universal credit – draft rules for transitional payments for severely disabled claimants who migrated before 16 January 2019 – unlawful

Bereavement benefits - surviving partner of a religious marriage recognised in Pakistan but not in England and Wales – human rights

Tribunals – procedural irregularities leading to set-aside

Two-child limit – not unlawful

Income support (IS) - right to reside – parent gave up work in order to look after his children following social services advice that otherwise they will be taken into care

Absence from UK – ‘period not exceeding four weeks’ – calculation of period of absence

Tribunal procedure – fairness

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - failure to attend medical – ‘good cause’ – whether reasonable to expect ‘forward planning’ by the claimant