[2024] UKUT 223 (AAC)

The appointee’s stated reasons for requesting an oral hearing rehearse her detailed written grounds for seeking permission to appeal. Those grounds do not disclose any arguable error of law, as I explain below. Rehearsing the grounds orally would make no difference to their merits. Holding an oral hearing for the appointee to rehearse the grounds orally would merely give false hope.

There is no arguable error of law, for the following reasons.

I have grouped the submissions into numbered grounds.