RP000262019

Pursuant to Rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, I make an anonymity order. Unless the Upper Tribunal or a Court directs otherwise, no report of these proceedings or any form of publication thereof shall directly or indirectly identify the Appellant or members of his/her family. This direction applies to, amongst others, all parties. Any failure to comply with this direction could give rise to contempt of court proceedings.

This is the remaking of the decision in this appeal following my previous decision, promulgated on 18 September 2019, that the First-tier Tribunal materially erred in law when allowing V T's appeal.

Although it was the Secretary of State who appealed to the Upper Tribunal, at this stage of proceedings it is now appropriate to refer to V T once more as the appellant, and to the Secretary of State as the respondent.

This appeal concerns two principal issues. First, has the respondent shown that the appellant is no longer a refugee because the circumstances in connection with which he had been recognised as such have ceased to exist? (the cessation issue). Second, is the respondent's decision to refuse the appellant's human rights claim on the basis that he is a foreign national criminal and should be deported, unlawful, with reference to Article 8 ECHR and section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998? (the deportation issue).

Over the course of his lengthy residence in the United Kingdom, the appellant has accrued the following convictions: