Caselaw summaries

Employment and support allowance – picking up and moving

Personal independence payment (PIP) – activity 7 (communicating verbally) – lip reading

Employment and support allowance (ESA) – evidence – claimant’s insight into own condition – wrong to assume a GP is merely reporting what claimant says

Personal independence payment (PIP) – assistance and supervision

Housing benefit (HB) – derivative right to reside – must have been an initial common period in which the child(ren) were installed in the UK while the parent was a worker

Personal independence payment (PIP) – activity 3 (managing therapy)

Personal independence payment (PIP) – activity 8 (reading and understanding signs, symbols and words) – claimant profoundly deaf and communicated primarily in British sign language (BSL)

Housing benefit (HB) – human rights violations – tribunal jurisdiction – tribunal cannot devise its own solution

Universal credit (UC) – mobilising – use of claimant’s estimate and reference to ‘normal’ walking speed

Employment and support allowance (ESA) – previous medical report – failure to call for missing history and evidence