Aber Roof Truss Limited v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

Decision date: 29 September 2010

Neutral citation: [2010] UKFTT 454 (TC)

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Short overview

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This appeal concerns whether Mr Adams was entitled to statutory sick pay (SSP) for 5–20 June 2008 after straining knee ligaments playing football and producing a GP MED3 certificate. The First-tier Tribunal found on the balance of probabilities that he was incapable of work for that period and upheld HMRC’s decision that the employer owed £135.72. The employer’s refusal to pay based on the injury being self-inflicted and prior absenteeism did not negate the entitlement.

Ratio decidendi

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The tribunal treated a GP-issued MED3 certificate attesting incapacity for specified dates as satisfying the statutory condition for SSP entitlement and held that an employer’s contrary view about the cause of incapacity (e.g. self-inflicted injury) does not, by itself, defeat entitlement where incapacity is established on the balance of probabilities.

Obiter dicta

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The notes record commentary that employer warnings about future non-payment of SSP and evidence of prior absenteeism are relevant considerations but do not determine statutory entitlement and do not displace medical evidence of incapacity; this appears as non-essential, persuasive commentary rather than binding reasoning.

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