legal representation at esa appeal tribunalhi

chrissy v wrote:

Hi Derek,

Can your rep be a family member that is also a solicitor, but only representing you as a close family member rather than the later, or are they obliged to tell the tribunal of their proffession.


Chrissy V

It depends on whether they are acting as your repesentative (small r) or your Representative (big r) as the tribunal will expect certain things from the latter, which would not be expected of the former.

Solicitors are trained in a variety of aspects of the law, but unless they specialise, are unlikely to have a good, or even any understanding of benefit law, a bad Repesentative can often be worse than having no representative.

Gordon