Keyword
17 decisions turning on credibility findings.
P was born in 2024 with serious medical issues and, following an acute deterioration in July 2024, was diagnosed with a severe life-limiting condition requiring prolonged intensive care and continuous intravenous medication…
The appellant, anonymised as JDE under a rule 14 order, was in receipt of universal credit and made a fresh health declaration in relation to her award on 9 April 2024, supported by a fit note. Following a medical examination by…
The King Edward VII Hospital Estate at Midhurst, West Sussex, within the South Downs National Park, is a redevelopment of a former hospital and its grounds, permitted on the basis of "enabling development", whereby development…
GNY, born in 2004, is a young person for the purposes of the Children and Families Act 2014 who has a number of physical and mental disabilities arising from various medical conditions and who needs significant support to achieve…
The claimant, an anonymised appellant known as KDK, applied for personal independence payment. By a decision of 14 March 2024, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions determined that she scored 0 points for the daily living…
The appellant, Agincourt Investments Limited, is the landlord of 19 Eglinton Hill, London SE18, a building of five flats; the five respondents are the leaseholders, each liable for one-fifth of the service charges. Following a…
The claimant, born and raised in Nigeria before relocating to the UK in 2007, worked for the respondent as Senior Manager, Global Strategic Insights, from April 2017, reporting to Alessandra Toro, Director for Strategic Insights…
The respondent was employed by Fieldfisher LLP, a firm of solicitors, as a Senior Associate in its Dispute Resolution Department from June 2019. He was dismissed on 6 November 2023 for the stated reason of misconduct, based on…
The proceedings concerned D, a boy aged three, born in March 2023. His father, Mr A, applied on 15 April 2025 for a child-arrangements order that D should live with him and spend time with his mother; his mother, Ms B, applied on…
Alfie, a boy aged between 18 and 21 months at the material time and now aged three, sustained a range of injuries — including a skull fracture, a fractured right radius and four rib fractures — while living with his mother and…
KHX, born in June 1974, was received into the care of the Isle of Wight Council in 1976 and, from March 1984 when he was nine, was placed at Richmond Row Children's Home at Brading, a home owned and managed by the Council, where…
The appellant, Darran Phoenix, was an approved driving instructor whose name appeared in the Register of Approved Driving Instructors maintained by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency. A 17 year-old female student whom he was…
The applicant, referred to as MIK, had been in a relationship with the complainant, C1, for over 20 years. The prosecution case was that throughout the relationship he had been controlling and coercive: he prevented C1 from…
These were private law proceedings in the Central Family Court concerning two children, AXQ, a teenage boy, and his younger sister BXQ. The father, X, and the mother, Q, were never married but lived together from September 2003…
An Chen and Lin Chen, trading in partnership as Wai Ho Takeaway from premises in Front Street, Klondyke, Cramlington, applied to register the partnership for VAT by a form VAT1 submitted on their behalf by Liu & Company…
The appellants were James Ashley Gibbons ("JG") and his son Richard Lee Gibbons ("LG"), both self-employed lorry and truck drivers working in and near Newport, Wales, who lived at the family home and ran their businesses…
Mr Michael Hurst and Mrs Mary Hurst traded in partnership as "Park Fisheries", carrying on business as proprietors of three fish and chip restaurants and takeaways — Park Fisheries in Cleckheaton, Mother Hubbards in Oldham and…