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CAMPAIGNER River Axe-the-Tax blasted the “gross injustice” of the “shockingly slow” appeals process today after successfully beating a decision that denied him personal independence payments (PIP).
Mr Axe-the-Tax — who legally changed his name in protest at the bedroom tax — has had his case sent back to the first-tier tribunal (FTT) after an upper tribunal judge agreed the earlier decision contained a “material error of law.”
A decision published last week revealed both the upper tribunal and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) agreed that the FTT’s decision should be set aside.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors