PA/08066/2016
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Upper Tribunal
(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Number: PA/08066/2016
THE IMMIGRATION ACTS
Heard at Bradford
Decision & Reasons Promulgated
On 6th September 2017
On 12th September 2017
Before
DEPUTY UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE D E TAYLOR
Between
Saeed Zarei
(ANONYMITY DIRECTION NOT MADE)
Appellant
and
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT
Respondent
Representation:
For the Appellant: Mr C Cole of Parker Rhodes Hickmotts
For the Respondent: Mrs R Petterson, HOPO
DECISION AND REASONS
1. This is the appellant's appeal against the decision of Judge Bradshaw made following a hearing at Bradford on 6th January 2017.
2. Mrs Pettersen accepted that the decision could not stand.
3. The appellant is a citizen of Iran born on 27th June 1994. He claimed asylum in the UK on the basis that he had converted to Christianity and had suffered persecution in Iran as a consequence.
4. The judge rejected the appellant's account in its entirety.
5. The judge heard oral evidence from a Reverend Clarke of the Elim Church in Huddersfield. She said that there were discrepancies between the appellant's account of his preparation for baptism and Reverend Clarke's understanding of it but it is hard to see from the evidence what that discrepancy could be. In any event, on the face of it Reverend Clarke was providing significant evidence in support of the appellant's claim which had to be properly engaged with.
6. Mrs Pettersen properly acknowledged that there was no such engagement in this determination.
7. The judge erred in law by failing to assess all of the relevant evidence before her. The decision is set aside. It will have to be remade by a judge other than Judge Bradshaw at a hearing to be fixed in Bradford.
No anonymity direction is made.
Signed Date 11 September 2017
Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Taylor