CS v Secretary of State for Defence (WP): [2025] UKUT 244 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 15 July 2025.

Read the full decision in UA-2024-001158-WP.

Judicial Summary

This was an appeal against the First-tier Tribunal (FTT)’s composite assessment of disablement for the purpose of the war pensions scheme under Article 42 of the Service Pensions Order (SPO). The Upper Tribunal rejected the Appellant’s submission that the FTT had erred in law in deciding not to make separate assessments for the two accepted conditions of prolapsed intervertebral disc disease C5/C6 and cervical myelopathy. The appeal was dismissed.

Updates to this page

Published 28 August 2025