OA191952011

For the appellant: Iain Palmer (counsel instructed by Camden Community Law Centre)

This is an appeal, by the , against the decision of the First-tier Tribunal (Judge John Blair-Gould), sitting at Taylor House on 18 January, to a husband�s appeal by a citizen of Bangladesh. Permission to appeal was given the entry clearance officer on the basis of an apparent contradiction between what the judge had said in dealing with the position of the appellant�s children with the sponsor. This had arisen first at paragraph 54, where the judge was dealing with the appeal under the Immigration Rules, on which a visa had been refused on the basis of paragraph 320 (18).

save where the Immigration Officer is satisfied that admission would be justified for strong compassionate reasons, conviction in any country including the United Kingdom of an offence which, if committed in the United Kingdom, is punishable with imprisonment for a term of 12 months or any greater punishment or, if committed outside the United Kingdom, would be so punishable if the conduct constituting the offence had occurred in the United Kingdom

The judge dismissed the appeal on this ground; but he allowed it, for reasons which included, at paragraph 72, what appeared to Judge Neil Froom, who granted the entry clearance officer permission to appeal, in the First-tier Tribunal, to have been a treatment of the position of the children inconsistent with what the judge had said at paragraph 54. Judge Froom also extended time to appeal, for reasons he gave.

I am not however concerned at present with the merits of this appeal, because Mr Palmer wished to challenge the grant of permission itself. Again I am not at present concerned with the merits of that challenge, because the first question which arises on it is as to my jurisdiction to deal with it.