Bland v Chief Supplementary Benefit Officer: CA 1983

(Orse R(SB) 12/83)) The commissioner refused had leave to appeal against a decision of the Supplementary Benefit Appeal Tribunal.
Held: No appeal lay to it against a decision of a Commissioner refusing leave to appeal from a decision of an appeal tribunal. Sir John Donaldson MR, referring to s. 14 of the Social Security Act 1980, said: ‘I would accept that in a sense the grant or refusal of leave to appeal to the Commissioner is a decision, just as in Ex parte Stevenson [1982] 1 QB, 609 it was accepted that the grant or refusal of leave to appeal was an order of the High Court, but it is not the kind of decision which, in my judgment, s.14 contemplate.’ and ‘If necessary, the applicant should seek judicial review’
Kerr LJ agreed that any remedy ‘can only be sought by means of judicial review and not by appeal to this court.’

Sir John Donaldson MR, Sir Sebag Shaw, Kerr LJ
[1983] 1 WLR 262, [1983] 1 All ER 537
England and Wales
Citing:
Appeal fromBland v Chief Supplementary Benefit Officer SSCS 1-Dec-1982
Application for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal against a ruling of the Social Security Commissioner. The tibunal was asked if the Court of Appeal any jurisdiction to give leave to appeal from the refusal of a Social Security Commissioner to . .

Cited by:
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CitedSinclair Gardens Investments (Kensington) Ltd, Regina (on the Application of) v The Lands Tribunal CA 8-Nov-2005
The claimant appealed against a refusal of judicial review of a decision of the Lands Tribunal.
Held: A decision of the Lands Tribunal could only be judicially reviewed in exceptional cases where there was either a jurisdictional error or a . .

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Updated: 20 December 2021; Ref: scu.235392