Resources

 

What may this process feel like?

• AFCS Help

 

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

• The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and Service Pensions Order 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
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Organisations representing service personnel and veterans' challenges

• Independent Defence Authority
• Centre for Military Justice
• Forward Assist

 

MOD Annual Statistics

• Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) annual statistics
• War Pension Scheme 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

• MOD National and Official Statistics by topic

 

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)

• DWP - Decision makers’ guide: staff guide
• DWP - Advice for decision making: staff guide

 

MP questions in Parliament

• Rachael Maskell to MOD: Veterans, suicide and coroner reports

 

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