tribunal practice
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.
- Principles of fairness and natural justice required tribunal to give ADP claimant who did not attend appeal hearing a clear warning before removing previously awarded points
- 2026 UT 15
- VM v Social Security Scotland
- Where Social Security Scotland changed its position during course of tribunal hearing, claimant should have been given opportunity to adjourn
- 2025 UT 86
- RB v Social Security Scotland
- Tribunal considering appeal against decision to refuse ADP was not entitled to take account of circumstances not obtaining at the date of decision appealed
- 2025 UT 79
- Social Security Scotland v SH
- Tribunal erred in making ‘stepped award’ to increase ADP entitlement for a second period on basis of information pertaining to time after Social Security Scotland’s determinations
- 2025 UT 66
- Social Security Scotland v DC
- Tribunal’s observations in refusing permission to appeal an ADP ruling cannot compensate for poor quality decision-making
- 2025 UT 63
- Social Security Scotland v CB
- Social Security Scotland challenges defective tribunal decision to seek more favourable ADP award for claimant
- 2025 UT 44
- Social Security Scotland v LR
- Where an ADP claimant seeks to do anything other than preserve a tribunal decision in the terms in which it was made, they are required to seek permission to appeal
- 2025 UT 42
- Social Security Scotland v RF
- Upper Tribunal for Scotland considers test for adequacy of reasons for devolved benefit appeal decisions in relation to the brevity of a tribunal’s reasons for awarding zero points for ADP activity 5
- 2025 UT 18
- RM v Social Security Scotland
- Social Security Scotland’s failure to follow usual practice of passing details of a representative to the FTS was a material procedural irregularity that justified ‘quashing’ tribunal’s decision
- 2025 UT 13
- JA v Social Security Scotland
- Tribunal erred in failing to consider relevant evidence provided by ‘credible and reliable’ ADP claimant
- 2025 UT 05
- SC v Social Security Scotland
- Upper Tribunal for Scotland sets out the principles which guide the grant or refusal of permission to appeal against decisions of the First-tier Tribunal in social security cases
- 2024 UT 65
- KW v Social Security Scotland
- Tribunal considering an ADP appeal was entitled to take account of circumstances not obtaining at the date of decision appealed
- 2024 UT 53
- Social Security Scotland v HK
- 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
- Circumstances of claimant’s case did not require the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland to use power to call for further medical evidence
- 2024 UT 05
- AK v Social Security Scotland
- First-tier Tribunal for Scotland erred in failing to consider exercising its power to call for further evidence
- 2023 UT 35
- NB v Social Security Scotland