Tribunal decisions

The decision

Upper Tribunal
(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Number: AA/05775/2014

THE IMMIGRATION ACTS

Heard at Bradford
Decision and Reasons Promulgated
On 27 January 2016
On 11 February 2016

Before

UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE
D E TAYLOR

Between

RAJMONDA KARAJFILAJ
Appellant
And

SECRETARY OF STATE for the home department
Respondent

Representation:
For the Appellant: Mr Harding, Cousel, instructed by Kliby Jones, sols.
For the Respondent: Mrs Pettersen, HOPO.

DECISION AND REASONS
1. This is the appellant's appeal against the decision of Judge Simpson made following a hearing at Manchester on 11 September 2014. The judge dismissed the appellant's appeal against the respondent's decision of 28 July 2014 to refuse to grant her asylum in the UK.
2. The appellant claimed to be at risk on return, having been trafficked to the UK from Albania.
3. Both parties accepted that the judge had materially erred in law in reaching her decision. First, she had not given adequate reasons for finding that the appellant could reasonably relocate away from her home area, having accepted to the relevant standard that she had been forced into prostitution there. She had not properly applied the guidance in AM & BM (Trafficked women) Albania CG [2010] UKUT80.
4. Second, she had not made any finding on the core issue of whether the appellant had in fact been trafficked to the UK. It was agreed that the findings of fact would have to be reconsidered in the First tier Tribunal.
5. The appellant has in her possession an updated report from Social Services dated 15 December 2015 which must be served on the Home Office and the Tribunal 7 days before the hearing.
6. This appeal is to be listed before a judge other than Mrs Simpson at Manchester to be reheard with all issues at large.

Signed Date

Judge of the Upper Tribunal