PA/07333/2017

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Upper Tribunal
(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Number: PA/07333/2017


THE IMMIGRATION ACTS


Determined at Field House without a hearing
Decision & Reasons Promulgated
On 5 March 2019
On 3 April 2019



Before

UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE RINTOUL


Between

T B
(ANONYMITY ORDER MADE)
Appellant
and

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT
Respondent


DECISION AND REASONS
1. On 15 February 2019 I gave the following directions: -
"1. In the light of the grant of permission by FtTJ Dineen and the rule 24 response dated 14 February 2019 accepting that there was procedural unfairness, I am of the provisional view that there is an error of law in the decision of the First-tier Tribunal such that the decision should be set aside. Having regard to paragraph 7.2 of the Practice Statements of the Immigration and Asylum Chambers of the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal, I am also of the provisional view that the case remitted to the First-tier Tribunal for a fresh decision on all issues.
2. In the absence of any written submissions to the contrary, which must be received by the Upper Tribunal within 7 days of this permission decision being sent, the Upper Tribunal intends (without holding a hearing) to set aside the decision of the First-tier Tribunal and to remake it by allowing the appeal.
2. There has been no response to these directions by either party but by a letter dated 14 February 2018, the respondent stated that he considered that the appeal should be remitted to the First-tier Tribunal and heard de novo.
3. Accordingly, I am satisfied that neither party objects to the matter being determined without a hearing and has nothing further to say. I am satisfied that that the determination of the First-tier Tribunal did involve the making of an error of law for the reasons set out above, and must therefore be set aside. In the circumstances, owing to a procedural unfairness, the appellant did not receive a fair hearing, and the appropriate course is to remit the appeal to the First-tier Tribunal for a fresh decision on all issues
Summary of conclusions
1. The determination of the First-tier Tribunal did involve the making of an error of law and I set it aside.
2. The appeal is remitted to the First-tier Tribunal for a fresh decision on all issues.


Signed Date: 5 March 2019

Upper Tribunal Judge Rintoul