Tribunal practice
Cases without a Neutral Citation Number
In addition to the case law items included on the main pipinfo issue page, we've also added Upper Tribunal judgments here that may be of interest, despite not having been given a Neutral Citation Number following changes introduced by the judiciary in April 2025.
- Tribunal erred by failing to provide adequate explanation for conclusion that claimant’s caring responsibilities and driving ability were inconsistent with an award of PIP
- UA-2026-000207-PIP
- LG v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal’s mistake of fact when deciding PIP appeal was so ‘perverse’ that it met the very high threshold to amount to a material error of law
- UA-2025-001770-PIP
- LL v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal had insufficient regard to the Senior President of Tribunal Practice Direction for vulnerable adult witnesses
- UA-2025-001294-PIP
- MH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal erred in law by failing to engage with evidence of domestic abuse and its psychological impact on mental health and mobility
- UA-2025-001255-PIP
- GAH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal erred in failing to consider whether PIP application could be treated as an advance claim following end of employment
- UA-2025-000486-PIP
- NH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal’s imbalanced focus on a PIP claimant’s employment, alongside its cursory treatment of medical evidence, breached its broad discretion as to how it weighed all of the evidence
- UA-2025-000375-PIP
- SS v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal must set out reasons for finding previous lifetime DLA award to be irrelevant when deciding PIP appeal
- UA-2024-001687-PIP
- TH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Failure to adjourn PIP hearing when claimant became too distressed to conclude giving evidence amounted to an error of law
- UA-2024-001671-PIP
- NRB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions