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             The applicant, a Nigerian national, applied for international protection on 2 June 2022.� The applicant identifies as bisexual and claims that she is at risk of persecution in Nigeria in consequence of her sexual orientation.� The applicant expresses concern that she may be prosecuted and that her children may be taken away from her.� (See IPO Questionnaire, �4.5, �4.6 and �7.2).
             The decision at first instance is dated 19 May 2023 and recommended the refusal of both refugee status and subsidiary protection. �A notice of appeal to the IPAT was lodged on 2 August 2023.� Thereafter, on 16 August 2023, the applicant's solicitor emailed a single attachment to the IPAT's secretariat.� The attachment consisted of an official letter purportedly sent to the applicant by the Nigerian police force.
             (It should be explained that there is a discrepancy in the police summons in that the relative timing of the alleged breach of the peace vis-�-vis the sending of the letter appears to be incorrect.� Again, the detail of this discrepancy is not published as part of this judgment in order to protect the anonymity of the applicant.� As discussed at paragraph 34 below, the IPAT seeks to make something of this discrepancy).
             The solicitor's email, which forwarded the copy of the police summons to the IPAT, states as follows: " Please see the attached documentation provided by our client in support of her application ". �The IPAT's secretariat acknowledged receipt of the email on the same date and stated that the contents had been " duly noted and circulated to the relevant personnel in the Tribunal ".
         Further materials, including country of origin information (" COI ") and character references, were furnished to the IPAT by the applicant's solicitors in September, October and November 2023. �Written submissions were submitted on behalf of the applicant on 11 December 2023.� These written submissions did not refer expressly to the police summons. �
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