OA132792013

For the appellant: Mr F Habtemariam ((working under the supervision of Cambridge Law Centre)

This is an appeal, by the , against the decision of the First-tier Tribunal (Judge Janice Woolley and a lay member), sitting at Richmond on 25 April, to an appeal against refusal to revoke a deportation order by a citizen of Zimbabwe, born 16 June 1975. Permission was given mainly on a ground relating to the primacy of the Rules, with which I shall deal first; but it was extended to the other grounds, which I shall go on to.

tries to re-enter on false Portuguese passport � 8 months� imprisonment, with recommendation for deportation � claims asylum � appeal dismissed � order signed

further representations � treated as application for revocation � refused � voluntary departure � appeal withdrawn

The Home Office grounds argued that the panel should have applied MF (Nigeria) [2013] EWCA Civ 1192 , effectively requiring exceptional circumstances if they were to depart from the terms of the current Rules. They made no attempt to suggest the precise basis under the Rules on which such circumstances would be required. Miss Isherwood suggested that the relevant version in a deportation case is the �new Rules�. The reason for that lay in the following paragraph