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Social security law [2025] NICom 29

ST v Department for Communities (ESA) (Good Cause)

ST v Department for Communities (ESA) (Good Cause) [2025] NICom 29 (23 January 2026)

The Commissioner allowed the appeal, finding the claimant had good cause for missing an ESA assessment because her failure stemmed from mental health issues linked to an obsessional trust problem.

  • Employment and support allowance
  • Good cause for non-attendance
  • Mental health and benefits
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Disability discrimination
  • Employment-and-support-allowance
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Civil procedure [2025] NICA 62

Rana (t/a Dee Indian Ltd) v Bouliach (Re Anonymity) (Rev1)

Rana (t/a Dee Indian Ltd) v Bouliach (Re Anonymity) (Rev1) [2025] NICA 62 (05 December 2025)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland refused the appellant’s request to anonymise the parties, holding that open justice outweighed the asserted safety and privacy concerns.

  • Anonymity orders
  • Open justice
  • Article 2 echr
  • Article 8 echr
  • Article 10 echr
  • Sexual harassment
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Social security law [2025] NICom 14

LT v Department for Communities (Disability Living Allowance)

LT v Department for Communities (Disability Living Allowance) [2025] NICom 14 (06 June 2025)

The Commissioner held that the tribunal erred in law by inadequately reasoning its rejection of expert medical evidence, set aside the decision, and remitted the case.

  • Disability living allowance
  • Error of law
  • Medical evidence assessment
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Disability-living-allowance
  • Error-of-law
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Social security law [2025] NICom 9

LC v Department for Communities (ESA)

LC v Department for Communities (ESA) [2025] NICom 9 (18 March 2025)

The Commissioner granted leave to appeal against an ESA tribunal decision, found an error of law in its handling of regulation 35, set the decision aside, and referred the case back.

  • Employment and support allowance
  • Limited capability for work
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Error of law
  • Work-related activity assessment
  • Employment-and-support-allowance
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Social security law [2025] NICom 8

KT v Department for Communities (PIP)

KT v Department for Communities (PIP) [2025] NICom 8 (10 March 2025)

The Commissioner granted leave to appeal, allowed KT’s appeal, set aside the tribunal decision and remitted the PIP case to a newly constituted tribunal.

  • Personal independence payment
  • Error of law
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Mistake of fact
  • Admission of new evidence
  • Personal-independence-payment
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Social security law [2025] NICom 5

CC v Department for Communities (ESA)

CC v Department for Communities (ESA) [2025] NICom 5 (13 February 2025)

Leave to appeal was granted on a novel legitimate expectation point, but the Commissioner disallowed the appeal against recovery of an ESA overpayment.

  • Employment and support allowance
  • Overpayment recovery
  • Legitimate expectation
  • Maladministration
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Employment-and-support-allowance
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Social security law [2025] NICom 1

CR v Department for Communities (CSC) (Shared care)

CR v Department for Communities (CSC) (Shared care) [2025] NICom 1 (23 January 2025)

The Commissioner dismissed a child support appeal about shared care, holding that bank statements did not make the tribunal proceedings unfair and that the shared care band was correctly assessed.

  • Child support
  • Shared care
  • Data protection
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Child-support
  • Shared-care
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Social security law [2023] NICom 41

CRC v Department for Communities (PIP) (Representatives)

CRC v Department for Communities (PIP) (Representatives) [2023] NICom 41 (18 January 2024)

The Commissioner allowed a PIP appeal, finding the tribunal had not properly ensured effective participation for a claimant with autism and anxiety.

  • Personal independence payment
  • Procedural fairness
  • Effective participation
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Disability discrimination
  • Personal-independence-payment
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Social security law [2023] NICom 40

DR v Department for Communities (PIP)

DR v Department for Communities (PIP) [2023] NICom 40 (14 December 2023)

Leave to appeal was granted in a PIP case where the Commissioner found the tribunal materially erred by relying on the claimant’s part-time work without properly examining her duties.

  • Personal independence payment
  • Appeal procedure
  • Error of law
  • Assessment of disability
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Personal-independence-payment
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Social security law [2023] NICom 39

PW v Department for Communities (PIP) (Tribunals - General)

PW v Department for Communities (PIP) (Tribunals - General) [2023] NICom 39 (07 December 2023)

The Commissioner allowed an appeal in a PIP case after finding the Tribunal relied on a material factual error about the claimant’s wife’s working hours.

  • Personal independence payment
  • Error of law
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Factual error
  • Personal-independence-payment
  • Error-of-law
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Northern Ireland decisions are organised by court, judge, legal area and indexed issue so a practitioner can move from a proposition to a citable authority with the surrounding context intact.

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