When a compensation claim has been filed, what must the deciding body do with it, and does this provision name who decides?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file of this kind, we read the application for compensation itself, and the criminal decision terminating or acquitting the accused that gives rise to the claim, since the provision turns on whether that claim has merit.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading treats the provision as mandatory in both directions: where the compensation claim has merit, a compensation determination must be made, and where the claim has no merit, a determination dismissing the claim must be made, so no third outcome is left open.
Another reading notes that the provision speaks only of what must be decided, not of who decides it or of what makes a claim 'righteous', so the identity of the deciding body and the standard for merit are left open by its text.
Your judgment
What in the file would show that the compensation claim has merit, given that the provision itself never defines the standard?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to name the deciding body or to set out what makes a claim meritorious, or if a court decision explains how that merit is to be assessed.