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

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IN THE UPPER TRIBUNAL IMMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM CHAMBER	Case No: UI-2024-000902
	First-tier Tribunal No: PA/53182/2023 LP/00057/2024

 

THE IMMIGRATION ACTS

Decision & Reasons Issued:

 

On 11 September 2024

 

Before

 

DEPUTY UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE PARKES

 

Between

 

MMO

(ANONYMITY DIRECTION MADE)

Appellant

and

 

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

Respondent

Representation:

For the Appellant: Ms S Khan (Counsel, instructed by Fisher Stone Solicitors)

For the Respondent: Mr A Tan (Senior Home Office Presenting Officer)

 

Heard at Field House on 2 ^nd September 2024

 

Order Regarding Anonymity

 

Pursuant to rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, the Appellant is granted anonymity.

 

No-one shall publish or reveal any information, including the name or address of the appellant, likely to lead members of the public to identify the appellant. Failure to comply with this order could amount to a contempt of court .

DECISION AND REASONS

 

1.     The Appellant, a citizen of Iran, claimed asylum on the 17 ^th of November 2021, his claim was rejected for the reasons given in the Refusal Letter of the 9 ^th of May 2023. The Appellant appealed to the First-tier Tribunal, his appeal was heard by Judge Lester at Newport on the 2 ^nd of February 2024 and dismissed for the reasons given in the decision promulgated on the 7 ^th of February 2024.

 

2.     The Appellant sought permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal in grounds of the 9 ^th of February 2024. In summary the grounds argue that the Judge erred in his treatment of the medical evidence amounting to a procedural irregularity, the Judge questioned the expertise of the Dr without raising that with the Appellant. It is also argued that the Judge did not take the medico-legal report into account when assessing the Appellant's credibility and failed to assess the risk to the Appellant at the pinch-point on return. Permission was granted by Judge Saffer on all grounds on the 6 ^th of March 2024.

 

3.     The Appellant's Upper Tribunal hearing was conducted with the representatives attending remotely, there were no technical issues. At the hearing Mr Tan for the Secretary of State indicated that the Respondent accepted that the grounds were made out and that the Judge had erred as the grounds argued. Accordingly, it was accepted that the decision of Judge Lester had to be set aside.

 

4.     It was agreed by the parties that the appeal should be remitted to the First-tier Tribunal for re-hearing de novo with no findings preserved, not before Judge Lester. A Kurdish Sorani interpreter is required for the hearing.

Notice of Decision

5.     This appeal is allowed, the decision of Judge Lester set aside and the appeal remitted to the First-tier Tribunal for re-hearing.

 

Judge Parkes

 

Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal

Immigration and Asylum Chamber

 

Dated: 2 ^nd September 2024