| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2005] All ER (D) 435 (Apr) |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Civil Division |
| Judge: | Pill and May LJJ |
| Representation | Martin Westgate (instructed by Russell Jones & Walker) for the police officers. |
| Elizabeth Slade QC (instructed by Directorate of Legal Services, Metropolitan Police Services) for the police authority. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 29 April 2005 |
Catchwords
Police - Police pensions - Ill-health pension - Disablement - Degree of disablement - Decision of selected medical practitioner - Appeal to medical referee - Judge finding medical referee to determine issue of degree of disablement at time of appeal to him - Correctness of decision - Police Pension Regulations 1987, SI 1987/257, H1.
The Case
On the proper construction of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987, SI1987-257, on an appeal to the medical referee, the relevant date for determination of a police officer's degree of disablement was the date of the medical referee's decision, rather than that of the earlier determination by a selected medical practitioner.
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