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R (on the application of GB by litigation friend, Francesco Jeff) v Oxfordshire County Council (age dispute- relevance of documents) IJR [2015 ] UKUT 429 (IAC)
Ms Shu Shin Luh, instructed by Scott-Moncrieff & Associates, LLP appeared on behalf of the Applicant.
Mr Joshua Dubin, instructed by Oxfordshire County Council, appeared on behalf of the Respondent.
The duty of the Tribunal in disputed age assessments is to consider the evidence as a whole, including documentary evidence relied upon, even where there are a number of documents produced purporting to verify the claimed age. SA (Kuwait) v SSHD [2009] EWCA Civ 1157 considered.
JUDGE CLIVE LANE : By a claim for judicial review issued on 29 October 2013, the applicant (whom I shall hereafter refer to as G B) challenges an age assessment carried out by officers of the defendant which assessed his date of birth as 5 April 1995. G B claims that he was born on 5 April 1998. G B entered the United Kingdom on 3 July 2013 since which time he has been in the care of Oxfordshire Social Services. By G B-�s account, he was 15 years old when he entered the United Kingdom; by the assessment of the defendant, he was 18 years old.
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