United Kingdom Immigration and Asylum (AIT/IAC) Unreported Judgments

 

Upper Tribunal

(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Number: EA/03527/2015

 

 

THE IMMIGRATION ACTS

Heard at Field House	Decision & Reasons Promulgated
On 22 nd December 2017	On 28 th December 2017

 

 

Before

 

UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE COKER

 

Between

 

 

MAHMOOD AHMED ALI EL HAG

 

Appellant

And

 

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

Respondent

 

Representation :

 

For the Appellant: Mr J Rene, instructed by Waterfields Elder Rahimi Solicitors

For the Respondent: Mr P Deller, Senior Home Office Presenting Officer

 

 

DETERMINATION AND REASONS

 

 

 

1.          On 17 ^th November 2017, I granted the appellant permission to appeal in the following terms:

 

1. Permission to appeal the First-tier Tribunal decision having been given by the Upper Tribunal on 27th October 2017 following the decision in Khan v SSHD [2017] EWCA Civ 1755, the Upper Tribunal proposes

(a) to find a material error of law in the decision of the First-tier Tribunal to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction;

(b) remit the case to the First-tier Tribunal for hearing.

 

2. If either party objects to this course of action they are directed to make written submissions to be received by the Upper Tribunal within 14 days of the date of these directions being sent out.

 

3. If no written submissions are received, the Tribunal's decision as set out in (1) above stands and the case will be remitted for hearing before the First-tier Tribunal.

 

2.          The respondent, in her Rule 24 response stated that she as considering her position and requested an oral hearing. Mr Deller informed me that an application for permission had been made to the Supreme Court but the outcome was awaited.

 

3.          The judgment of the Court of Appeal in Khan v SSHD [2017] EWCA Civ 1755 represents the law and is binding on the UT. Importantly, the Court did not stay paragraph 1 of its Order, which was to allow the appeal.

 

4.          For this reason, I allow the appeal and remit the appeal to the First-tier Tribunal for determination.

 

 

Conclusions:

 

The making of the decision of the First-tier Tribunal did involve the making of an error on a point of law.

 

I set aside the decision and remit the appeal to the First-tier Tribunal to remake.

 

 

 

 

Date 22 ^nd December 2017

 

 

Upper Tribunal Judge Coker