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Pip tribunal wait and coronavirus
MobileGames
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Evening. I'm currently on week 51 of waiting for a tribunal for pip appeal. My question is,with the coronavirus and being told to stay indoors,no going out unless to get food once a week,exercise once a day with family you live with or as a key worker,if I get a date through in the next few months as the current average waiting time in my area is 59 weeks,will it be by phone because I can't go over and risk taking the coronavirus back to my parents who are in their 70s with health problems? I need to isolate completely due to my parents,and going to the supermarket is out of the question,even was before this due to depression,anxiety and ocd. Crowds are a trigger of mine,very overwhelming to the point of frustration,feeling irritable and tears where I have to remove myself because I have visions of hurting someone. Thank you.
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The current scenario is that all tribunal venues are shut and there are no oral hearings at all. Telephone hearings commence with immediate effect but most likely those where you have a rep will be postponed until they can get the bandwidth and organisation to enable conference calls. In the remaining cases a judge will preview the papers and call the appellant around the time the hearing is listed. They may also make separate calls to the DQM and medical professionals who might otherwise have sat with them. Some cases will be decided on the papers only but consent would ordinarily be needed for that. My personal guess would be that the only ones decided on the papers will be those where people have either consented to a paper hearing already or they’re one of Ernie Ryder’s “no brainier” cases i.e. those which ought to have been decided in favour much earlier.
I made the appeal online so should I expect an email clarifying what's happening?
Also, do you know what number they use to call people if it's the same nationally? I find it extremely difficult to use phones (quickly causing physical symptoms such as IBS & nausea to the point where I can't speak) and tbh I'm more worried about getting the phonecall than I was about attending in person before all of this started.
No-one can say when venues will open bar government.
- it’s a case which would ordinarily be heard by a judge sitting alone (thus 4 on the call).
- the rep and appellant consent to it going ahead without the rep.
- it was going to be a paper hearing anyway.
There’s a hope the tech can be expanded to accommodate reps but these things take, time and money and people to be physically present. It happens when it happens.
The advice at present is not to ring. It’s unrealistic to expect queries to be answered in a timely manner at this point.