MW v Leeds City Council (HB): [2018] UKUT 319 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Rowland on 25 September 2018.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 9 October 2018

• Categories: Tribunal procedure and practice
• Sub-categories: Capital - Notional Capital: deprivation, Tribunal procedure and practice - tribunal practice
• Judges: Rowland, M
• Decision date: 25 September 2018

Read the full decision in CH/1718/2017.

Judicial Summary

Tribunal practice - principle of estoppel per rem judicatam - whether applicable to social security cases. Capital - deprivation of capital - whether capital lost by gambling is capital of which the claimant has deprived herself for the purpose of securing entitlement to benefit

Published 9 October 2018