IA014582020

        Pursuant to Rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, the appellant is granted anonymity. No-one shall publish or reveal any information, including the name or address or the appellant, likely to lead members of the public to identify the appellant. Failure to comply with this order could amount to a contempt of court. I make this order because the appellant is an asylum seeker and publicity of his identity might create a risk to his safety in the event of his return.

        The appellant is a national of Afghanistan. He was born in January 1994 and so is now 28 years old. He entered the United Kingdom in April 2008 when he was 14 years old. He has lived in the United Kingdom since then and so has been in the United Kingdom for a little over fourteen years.

      Permission to appeal was granted by Designated Judge Shaerf on grounds settled by Mr Collins. I have read all of the grounds but I set out below paragraph 7 of those grounds which, in my judgment, goes to the heart of the criticisms. It says:

      However, Mr Collins began his attack on the Decision and Reasons by pointing out that, in his submission, the First-tier Tribunal Judge had not understood the decision that she purported to follow. At paragraph 35 of the Decision and Reasons the First-tier Tribunal Judge made plain that she did not accept that the appellant had no family or connections in Afghanistan and said that the claim to the contrary was "firmly rejected by Judge Ford".

      That is right, but only to a limited extent. Judge Ford did say at paragraph 93 of her decision that she did not accept the appellant's claim that his father was dead and that she was: