File 2 - Decisions of the Social Security Commissioner

1 folder
Paper

From a lever arch file inscribed 'Commissioners appeal' and a dark green ring binder inscribed 'Appeal regs'

Correspondence, c.1984-2006, and papers re decisions of the Social Security Commissioner concerning industrial disablement, 1993-2003. In alphabetical order by name of appellant. In several of these appeals SPAID / OEDA was involved.

Further includes:

• copy of 'Decisions of the Tribunal of Social Security Commissioners' (October 2002) re four appeals in respect of prescribed disease D1 (pneumoconiosis) for coal workers
• 'Early papers':
• part of letter from John Patten re local tribunals being independent statutory authorities
• photocopies of reported (published) decisions of the Commissioner 1953-1984
• photocopies from literature on the law of social security and industrial injuries benefits

Reported decision No R(I) 6/85 of 14 December 1984 pointed out that SPAID had obtained a large amount of evidence, almost wholly statistical, to further the appeal in question. "Unhappily", the decision went on, the evidence submitted did "not bear on the issue in the appeal and it would have been advisable, and have saved time, if [Mrs Tait] had clarified the issue and perhaps obtained advice on the legal aspects of the case rather than obtain a mass of evidence which is relatively useless in the context of this appeal". This was not intended as a criticism of Tait's conscientious effort for the evidence she obtained. The Commissioner in question was J S Watson.

Restricted in compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 1998.

• English