JS v Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council (HB): [2021] UKUT 219 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 25 August 2021.

From:
HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
Published
13 October 2021
Categories:
Capital, Housing and council tax benefits and Tribunal procedure and practice
Sub-categories:
Capital - Ownership/Possession, Housing and council tax benefits - other and Tribunal procedure and practice - fair hearing
Judges:
Wikeley, N
Decision date:
25 August 2021

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Judicial Summary

Appellant with conviction for benefit fraud for failure to declare savings - Local authority decided he still possessed capital - Claimant said savings had been wasted on gambling debts - Three successive tribunals dismissed claimant鈥檚 appeals - Appellant made further housing benefit claim which council again refused - Fourth tribunal proceeded with paper hearing during lockdown, having drawn inference that claimant had deliberately made himself unavailable for questioning - Whether fair to proceed with paper hearing

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Published 13 October 2021