UI2024001441

Pursuant to rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, the appellant and any member of his family is granted anonymity. This is because the subject matter of this appeal is a protection claim. No-one shall publish or reveal any information, including the name or address of the appellant or his family, likely to lead members of the public to identify them. Failure to comply with this order could amount to a contempt of court.

              These written reasons reflect the oral decision which I have given to the parties today. They are brief by nature of the Secretary of State's concession made at the beginning of the hearing, for which I am grateful, and I regard that concession as properly made considering the transcript of the First-tier Tribunal's hearing.

              The appellant appeals against the decision of a Judge of First-tier Tribunal, Judge Codd, heard on 10 th January 2024 in which the Judge dismissed the appellant's protection appeal. The context is that the appellant is in an Iranian national who claims to have suffered adverse interest in Iran as a person of Kurdish ethnic origin because he had distributed leaflets for an opposition group, the KDPI.

              The appellant appealed against that decision on four grounds. The first was that any suggestion that his evidence lacked clarity and was vague was not a fair characterisation of that evidence. That was subsequently supported by a transcript where, in detailed submissions, Ms Imamovic points to the specific questions which the appellant was asked and which he answered in cross-examination. It was therefore unclear how the Judge had reasoned that the appellant's evidence had been vague.

              Permission was granted by Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Shepherd on all grounds.