Resources
What may this process feel like?
Improving your appeal
- Tribunal Practice and Procedure Workshop – Judge Philip Boyd - 2012 (DWP-related, downloadable pdf)
Finding Case Law
- National Archives - Find Case Law (judgments from 2003 onwards)
- Bailii.org - British & Irish case law & legislation, EU law and Law Commission reports
- HM Courts Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) decisions
- Official Law Reports for England and Wales (subscription required)
- Rightsnet - resources
Legislation
Organisations that may be able to help you with your case
- Royal British Legion
- SSAFA, The Armed Forces Charity
- Army Benevolent Fund
- Blesma
- RMA - Royal Marines Charity
- RAFA - Royal Air Forces Association
Organisations representing service personnel and veterans' challenges
MOD Annual Statistics
Analysing data
- Court_Stats Analysis of Crown Court usage in England & Wales: 2020-2022
- Court_Stats home page
- Evidence-Based Justice Lab
MOD policies
- Veterans UK decision-makers' guides (published by FOI 3-1-2024)
- War Pensions Medical Advisers Instructions and Procedures Manual (2000)
- Ministry of Defence fraud policy (published by FOI 4-1-2024)
- JSP 765 - Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, Statement of Policy
AFCS Reviews
- 2023 Quinquennial Review of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
- 2017 The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: 2017 quinquennial review
- 2018 The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: 2017 quinquennial review, one-year-on report
- 2010 Review of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
Gov statistics
Senior President of Tribunals' Annual Reports
- Senior President of Tribunals' Annual Reports: 2024
- Senior President of Tribunals' Annual Reports: 2023
- Senior President of Tribunals' Annual Reports: 2022
- Senior President of Tribunals' Annual Reports: 2021
MOD guidance
- Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) guidance
- War Pension Scheme guidance
- Appeal a War Pension or Armed Forces Compensation decision guidance
- Armed Forces Covenant Duty Statutory Guidance
- Welcome to the DBS UK Armed Forces & Veterans Portal
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
MP questions in Parliament
Coroner reports and gov responses
- Jonathan Cole: Regulation 28: Report to Prevent Future Deaths, Derby and Derbyshire Area Assistant Coroner, 05 June 2023
- Jonathan Cole: Ben Wallace MP response, 31 July 2023, to Jonathan Cole: Prevention of future deaths report
- Paul Chase: Regulation 28: REPORT TO PREVENT FUTURE DEATHS, Liverpool and Wirral Coroner
- Alexander Tostevin: MOD response to REGULATION 28: REPORT TO PREVENT FUTURE DEATHS DATED 6 DECEMBER 2021
- Charlie Owen: Prevention of Future Deaths Report,: Berkshire Assistant Coroner, 29 Nov 2024
- Charlie Owen: MOD response to coroner report, 7 Feb 2025
- Iddrisu and Nkhoma (serving personnel): REGULATION28 REPORT TO PREVENT FUTURE DEATHS, Birmingham and Solihull Coroner, 6 Dec 2019
- Iddrisu and Nkhoma (serving personnel): MOD response, 30 Jan 2020
- Iddrisu and Nkhoma (serving personnel): MOD response to Coroner report, 19 Dec 2022
Defence Business Services (of which Veterans UK is one part), annual plans
- Defence Business Services Annual Delivery Plan 2023-24
- Defence Business Services Annual Delivery Plan 2022-23