Housing Benefit Guidance Manual: Amendment 17 December 2008
Chapter C7 - Appeals
Contents
- 7.00 - About this chapter
- P7.10 - Appeals - pensioners
- 7.20 - Appeals to tribunals
- 7.30 - Changes during the period before a hearing
- 7.40 - Decisions that do not carry the right of appeal
- 7.50 - Who can appeal to a tribunal?
- 7.60 - Making an appeal to a tribunal
- 7.60 - How the appeal should be made
- 7.65 - Identifying the decision appealed against
- 7.70 - Time limits for appealing to a tribunal
- 7.80 - Late appeals
- 7.90 - Action when an appeal is made
- 7.95 - Lapsing an appeal
- 7.100 - Decision made to the claimant's advantage
- 7.105 - Decision made to the claimant's disadvantage
- 7.115 - Withdrawing an appeal
- 7.125 - Appeal not duly made
- 7.140 - Late appeals
- 7.170 - When is an appeal struck out?
- 7.175 - Reinstatement of appeal
- 7.180 - Pre-hearing enquiries
- 7.185 - Oral hearings
- 7.195 - Evidence
- 7.205 - Extracts from documents
- 7.210 - Copyright
- 7.211 - Presentation of statements
- 7.215 - Warning and instructions issued to claimants
- 7.220 - Rehabilitated offenders
- 7.225 - Witnesses
- 7.235 - Appeal awaiting outcome of other proceedings
- 7.240 - Criminal proceedings contemplated or pending
- 7.250 - Writing the submission to the tribunal
- 7.260 - Completion of appeal submissions
- 7.290 - Northern Ireland Commissioners' decisions
- 7.300 - Tribunal procedures
- 7.310 - Composition of the tribunal
- 7.330 - Oral hearings and notice given
- 7.340 - Right to be heard
- 7.345 - Right to be present
- 7.350 - Presence while tribunal consider their decision
- 7.355 - Use of experts
- 7.360 - Directions
- 7.365 - Attendance of presenting officer at hearing
- 7.370 - Function of a tribunal
- 7.375 - Responsibility of the claimant
- 7.380 - Presenting officer's role at the hearing
- 7.385 - What evidence is admissible?
- 7.390 - Questioning witnesses
- 7.400 - Recall of witnesses
- 7.405 - Introduction of new material
- 7.415 - Unreported decision produced at the hearing
- 7.420 - Concluding the presentation of the appeal
- 7.430 - Adjournments
- 7.450 - Resumed hearings
- 7.460 - Appeal outstanding at claimant's death
- 7.470 - Report of any exceptional incidents
- 7.475 - The tribunal's decision
- 7.510 - Consideration of the tribunal decision
- 7.530 - Decisions that cannot be implemented
- 7.540 - Superseding tribunal decisions
- 7.550 - Appeals to The Commissioners' Office and the courts
- 7.550 - Role of The Commissioners' Office
- 7.560 - Who can appeal to The Commissioners' Office?
- 7.570 - Involvement of the Secretary of State
- 7.580 - Leave to appeal and error in law
- 7.590 - Application for leave to appeal to The Commissioners' Office
- 7.610 - Application by the Secretary of State
- 7.615 - Late application
- 7.620 - The Chairman's determination
- 7.630 - Application to The Commissioners' Office
- 7.670 - Determination by a Commissioner of an application for leave
- 7.680 - Appeals to the The Commissioners' Office after leave granted
- 7.710 - Extensions of time
- 7.720 - Writing submissions
- 7.725 - Format of the submission
- 7.729 - Summary procedures
- 7.731 - Error of law
- 7.734 - False proposition in law
- 7.735 - Burden of proof
- 7.736 - Precedents
- 7.740 - Appeal tribunal decisions
- 7.743 - Tribunal found facts such that no person acting judicially and properly instructed as to the law could have come to decision under appeal
- 7.744 - Tribunal took into account matters that should not have been taken into account
- 7.745 - Failure to take account of a relevant matter/carry out inquisitorial function
- 7.747 - Natural justice
- 7.752 - No presenting officer
- 7.757 - Procedural irregularity
- 7.758 - Failure to supply reasons
- 7.765 - Failure to give adequate reasons
- 7.767 - Outside jurisdiction
- 7.775- Human rights
- 7.790 - Deciding the appeal
- 7.820 - The Commissioner's decision
- 7.860 - Appeals to Court of Appeal or Court of Session
- 7.861 - Who may apply for leave?
- 7.862 - Leave to appeal
- 7.865 - Time limits
- 7.867 - Suspension of benefit
- 7.869 - Staying decisions if an appeal is pending before a court in another case
- 7.875 - When is an appeal pending?
- 7.876 - Which courts are involved?
- 7.877 - Cases when it appears there would be no entitlement
- 7.885 - Cases when it appears there would be some entitlement
- 7.886 - Challenges to the decision to stay a look-a-like case
- 7.895 - What happens when the lead case is decided?
- 7.920 - Judicial review
- Annex A - Decisions that are not appealable
- Annex B - Liberty to apply
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