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Adult disability payment case law
In addition to the case law items included on the main pipinfo topic pages, we've also added judgments from the Upper Tribunal in Scotland here relating to adult disability payment that may also be of interest.
- Scottish tribunal erred in law by relying on a WCA decision made by an HMCTS tribunal to provide the evidential basis for an ADP award
- 2025 UT 23
- Social Security Scotland v DG
- Tribunal must make findings with regard to ability being causally linked to medical condition, and specify whether an ADP award is for a fixed or indefinite period
- 2024 UT 58
- Social Security Scotland v BM
- Tribunal was correct to find that claimant’s reading and writing difficulties fell within the terms of several ADP descriptors and had a causal connection to a ‘physical or mental condition’
- 2024 UT 46
- Social Security Scotland v AM