[2024] UKUT 191 (AAC)

The Appellant served as an infantry private in the Army from 2003 until 2009. He witnessed distressing incidents while on tours of duty in both Northern Ireland and Iraq. In 2017 a consultant psychiatrist (Dr Cahill) diagnosed the Appellant as suffering from PTSD. In the same year Veterans UK accepted that AFCS service was the predominant cause of the Appellant’s PTSD and accordingly made an interim award of compensation under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011 (SI 2011/517, ‘the 2011 Order’). In 2019 Veterans UK finalised that interim award by placing the Appellant’s PTSD at Table 3, Item 4, Level 12 of Schedule 3 to the 2011 Order. That final award was confirmed following reconsideration in January 2020.

Table 3 of Schedule 3 to the 2011 Order provides as follows: