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


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Cite as: [2015] UKAITUR OA196322013

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Upper Tribunal

(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Number: OA/19632/2013

 

 

THE IMMIGRATION ACTS

 

 

Heard at Glasgow

Promulgated on

on 17th February 2015

On 18th February 2015

 

 

 

Before

 

upper tribunal JUDGE MACLEMAN

 

 

Between

 

Adekunle Muazu Olaoti

Appellant

and

 

Entry Clearance Officer, Nigeria

Respondent

 

 

Representation:

For the Appellant: Mr A J Bradley, of P G Farrell, Solicitors

For the Respondent: Mrs M O’Brien, Senior Presenting Officer

 

 

DECISION AND REASONS

1.             The appellant appeals against a determination by First-tier Tribunal Judge Newberry (promulgated on 9th June 2014 following a hearing at Taylor House on 6 May 2014) dismissing his appeal against refusal of entry clearance to join his father in the UK.

2.             The appellant (through the sponsor, who lives in Scotland) has changed representatives since the hearing in the First-tier Tribunal. Neither representative had a complete file, nor was the history entirely clear from the Tribunal file. Previous representatives have not provided an explanation of what may have gone wrong. However, it is apparent that the appellant submitted a 51 page bundle or inventory of evidence in advance of the hearing, but it was either overlooked by the judge or was not placed on the file in good time for his attention. The appellant was not represented at the hearing and the judge recorded that there had been no letter or other communication seeking an adjournment, but the appellant’s representative had sought a change of hearing centre. It seems a representative may have been instructed and may have gone to another hearing centre.

3.             The information available is incomplete but it was enough for the Presenting Officer (very fairly) to concur that there was a breakdown of procedure such that there has not yet been a fair hearing.

4.             The determination of the First-tier Tribunal is set aside. Under Section 12(2)(b)(i) of the 2007 Act and Practice Statement 7.2 the nature and extent of judicial fact finding necessary for the decision to be remade is such that it is appropriate to remit the case to the First-tier Tribunal. The member(s) of the First-tier Tribunal chosen to reconsider the case are not to include Judge Newberry.

5.             No anonymity direction has been requested or made.

 

 

 

 

 

Upper Tribunal Judge Macleman

18 February 2015

 


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