G, R (On the Application Of) v Royal Borough of Greenwich

CLIVE SHELDON QC SITTING AS A DEPUTY JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT ____________________

Antonia Benfield (instructed by Scott-Moncrieff and Associates Ltd.) for the Claimant Hilton Harrop-Griffiths (instructed by Royal Borough of Greenwich Legal Department) for the Defendant Hearing date: November 24th 2021 ____________________

As for the British Red Cross evidence, the Council stated that this "does not add anything new or significant to lend itself to a reassessment of the matter, beyond information regarding your client's current physical and mental well being".

(i) The benefit of the doubt is always given to the unaccompanied asylum seeking child, since it is recognised that age assessment is not a scientific process ( A and WK v London Borough of Croydon [2009] EWHC 939 (Admin) at [40];

(ii) "A person such as a teacher or even a family member, who can point to consistent attitudes, and a number of supporting instances over a considerable period of time, is likely to carry weight that observations made in the artificial surroundings of an interview cannot carry" ( R(AM) v Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council [2012] UKUT 00118 (IAC) at [20]); and