T v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Turkey)

This is an appeal from a decision of an adjudicator (Mr T Jones, and not the adjudicator suggested by the careless person � neither Miss Hanrahan nor the presenting officer before the adjudicator � who drew up the grounds of appeal), sitting at Durham on 18 July 2002, allowing an asylum and human rights appeal by a Kurdish citizen of Turkey. Leave was given on the basis of what were said to be muddled and contradictory findings in the decision.

Clearly the adjudicator meant " � would be of interest if he were returned". We do hope he will start proof-reading his decisions, because that is not the sort of correction we ought to have to make for him.

We have to say that this kind of apparently standard paragraph is quite valueless. It does nothing at all to let either the parties or the Tribunal know what the adjudicator actually thinks about the background material, which is the point of putting anything in a judicial decision.

The core of the Appellant's case was supported in some measure by accounts of treatment undergone by others as noted in the objective evidence.