Julian
The following CD’s all relate to relinquishing ownership – unable to tell you if any actually examine deprivation issues:
ch/3853/01
396/02
5302/02
1278/02
1586/04
2552/04
1597/04
3142/05
3220/05
4041/05
859/06.
We took a case to tribunal in Swansea where the claimant had sold her property to her son (a builder) at a knock down price and felt we had strong arguments re reg 7 (commerciality and relinquishing ownership) and deprivation.
The chairman (who I won’t name but I’m sure you’ll know) rejected all arguments and found in favour of the claimant.
Basically, once he found that she had to sell the property (it was in a poor state of repair) that all issues regarding commerciality (despite her then paying for a large amount of the work to be done herself anyway!!) and deprivation were non-starters.