Clause 5 - Amendments to Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943
Armed Forces
8:55 am
Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury, Conservative)
My hon. Friend is right to say that the armed forces are different. I recently dealt with a case in which a teacher was appealing for an interim award following an assault by a pupil. The teacher was able to go to his own GP with his own medical records and his own evidence from the hospital casualty department where he was treated. The point about the armed forces is that all those matters are handled in-house by the body against which members of the services are appealing.