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United Kingdom Immigration and Asylum (AIT/IAC) Unreported Judgments


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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKAITUR/2019/HU024672019.html
Cite as: [2019] UKAITUR HU24672019, [2019] UKAITUR HU024672019

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Upper Tribunal

(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Number: HU/02467/2019

 

 

THE IMMIGRATION ACTS

 

 

Heard at Field House

Decision & Reasons Promulgated

On 12 th July 2019

On 23 rd July 2019

 

 

 

Before

 

UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE MARTIN

 

 

Between

 

Mrs Charity Emmanuel

(ANONYMITY DIRECTION NOT MADE)

Appellant

and

 

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

Respondent

 

 

Representation :

For the Appellant: Mr C Amgrah (UK Law Associates)

For the Respondent: Mr E Tufan (Senior Home Office Presenting Officer)

 

 

DECISION AND REASONS

1.              This is an appeal to the Upper Tribunal by the Appellant with permission granted by a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal. The Appellant, who is a Nigerian national, had appealed a decision of 18 th January 2019 refusing her Article 8 human rights claim. In the First-tier Tribunal the matter came before Judge Bell on 27 th March 2019 at Nottingham and in a Decision promulgated on 17 th April 2019 Judge Bell dismissed the appeal.

2.              Permission to appeal was granted solely on the basis that it was arguably an error of law for the judge not to have set out the burden and standard of proof in the Decision. However, when you read the Decision as a whole it is quite clear that whether or not the judge has set out the burden and standard of proof, she has applied it correctly. It is an Article 8 case. She has set out the evidence, set out what she accepts and what she does not accept, carried out an appropriate balancing exercise and concluded that there are no very significant obstacles to the Appellant integrating into Nigeria with her child on return where she has extended family member and her husband. Mr Amgrah was unable to take me to any part of Judge Bell's Decision and Reasons where she has applied too high a standard of proof or reversed the burden of proof.

3.              I can find no error of law in the Decision and Reasons and for that reason the appeal to the Upper Tribunal is dismissed.

Notice of Decision

 

The appeal to the Upper Tribunal is dismissed.

 

No anonymity direction is made.

 

Signed Date 17 July 2019

 

Upper Tribunal Judge Martin

 

 

 

 

TO THE RESPONDENT

FEE AWARD

 

I have dismissed the appeal and therefore there can be no fee award.

 

Signed Date 17 July 2019

 

Upper Tribunal Judge Martin


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