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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Asylum and Immigration Tribunal >> STARRED Rajan (Related claimants: Kimbesa explained) Sri Lanka [2001] UKIAT 00008 (8 February 2001) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIAT/2001/00008.html Cite as: [2001] UKIAT 01TH0244, [2001] UKIAT 00008, [2001] UKIAT 8 |
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APPEAL No. CC/51103/99 (STARRED)
(01/TH/0244)
Date of hearing: 30/01/2001
Date Determination notified: 8/2/2001
MUNIGESU RAJAN |
APPELLANT |
and |
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SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT | RESPONDENT |
'Where an adjournment of the appeal is requested the Appellate Authority shall not adjourn a hearing unless it is satisfied that refusing the adjournment would prevent the just disposal of the appeal.'
'Whatever the position may have been in the past, it is in my judgement now clear that ex parte Kimbesa is not to be regarded as authority for any proposition which requires the adjournment of a pending appeal on the grounds that asylum applications by relations of the appellant are under consideration. Rule 31 of the current Rules overrides any general principle which might be thought to have emerged from the decision in ex parte Kimbesa. In this case I was not satisfied that refusing the adjournment would prevent the just disposal of this appeal and I directed that the hearing should proceed.'