[2025] UKUT 147 (AAC)

Summary: Criminal Injuries Compensation (70.3 other: procedure)

Error of law in non-receipt of notice of First-tier Tribunal hearing and resulting non-attendance at that hearing. Resulting non-attendance was material; applicant would have attended and what she would have said could have made a difference. Quashed and remitted.

On judicial review from the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber)

Before: Upper Tribunal Judge Perez

Decision date: 13 May 2025

Decided on consideration of the papers

Representation:

Applicant: Representing herself

Respondent: Eilidh Wright, CICA

DECISION