RP001712018

This has been a remote hearing which has not been objected to by the parties. The form of remote hearing was by video, using Skype. A face to face hearing was not held to take precautions against the spread of Covid-19 and as all issues could be determined by remote means. The file contained the documents in paper format.

The Secretary of State appealed against a decision of First-tier Tribunal Judge Anthony, who allowed an appeal by AAS against the decision to revoke his protection status and to refuse his protection and human rights claim dated 11 September 2018. For ease I continue to refer to the parties as they were before the First-tier Tribunal, with AAS as the Appellant and the Secretary of State as the Respondent.

An error of law was found by Upper Tribunal Judge Grubb in a decision dated 24 June 2020 and the decision of the First-tier Tribunal was set aside to be re-made in the Upper Tribunal, with no specific preserved findings of fact.

On 22 January 2021, the Appellant's then solicitors applied for an adjournment of the hearing on the basis that they remained without instructions and had not had any further contact with the Appellant since the day before the case management hearing. The application was refused on the same date by Mr Hussain in the Upper Tribunal. The Appellant's then solicitors subsequently came off the record and are no longer representing the Appellant.

The issues in this appeal are as to (i) the Respondent's revocation of the Appellant's refugee status; (ii) humanitarian protection (albeit not expressly raised by the Appellant); (iii) Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights; and (iv) Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights/private and family life exceptions to deportation.