[2024] UKUT 18 (AAC)

By a form completed and submitted on 23 November 2016, Miss S applied to CICA for compensation for “domestic/family violence” from 24 December 2006 to 29 September 2016, resulting in a physical injury to her eye and mental injury. She said in the claim form: “I have been in domestic violence reletionship [sic] since 2006 which I been emotionally abused and also was few accidents when I was beaten 26/7/15 he glassed me”.

The police reports at pages B4 to B6 record five incidents of domestic violence in 2007 (page B4); one incident in January 2008 (page B6); one incident in January 2009 (page B5), one incident in August 2013 (page B5); one incident in August 2014 (page B5); three incidents in 2015 (in January, June and July 2015, pages B5 to B6), and then two incidents in 2016 (in July and September 2016, page B6).

In her claim form to CICA, Miss S ticked “Yes” to the question “Have any of your injuries resulted in scarring?”, enclosed photographs, and said that her current symptoms are depression. She ticked “Yes” also to the question: “Has the injury resulted in any of the following for more than 28 weeks? As a direct result of your injury, did you have no, or a very limited, capacity for paid work?”. She ticked “No” to the question “As a direct result of your injury, did you incur costs for ‘special expenses’ such as treatment, care, special equipment?”.