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Conclusions
Conclusion
I therefore conclude that the First-tier Tribunal’s decision involved material errors of law. I set that decision aside and remit this case for re-determination by a fresh Tribunal panel in accordance with the law set out in this decision.
Holly Stout
Judge of the Upper Tribunal
Authorised by the Judge for issue on 23 October 2025
- Heading
- The decision of the Upper Tribunal is to allow the appeal. The decision of the First-tier Tribunal involved an error of law. Under section 12(2) (a), (b)(i) and (3) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforc
- REASONS FOR DECISION
- Factual background
- The First-tier Tribunal’s decision
- The law
- Industrial injuries benefits for prescribed disease or injury
- Relevant case law relating to IIDB
- Causation
- Injury
- Accident
- The approach of the Upper Tribunal on appeal
- Ground 2 - Failure to address/give reasons for concluding that the other ‘undocumented’ incidents that the Tribunal concluded were an effective cause of the injury were in law “process” rather than pa
- The parties’ submissions
- My conclusions on ground 2
- Ground 1 - Perverse and/or inadequately reasoned conclusion that the 10 specific documented accidents were not an ‘effective cause’ of the injury
- My conclusions on Ground 1
- Identification of the injury
- Identification of the effective causes
- Identification of the accidents
- Extent of disablement
- Ground 3 - Perverse and/or inadequately reasoned reliance on family history of cognitive impairment
- My conclusions on Ground 3
- Conclusions