[2025] UKUT 162 (AAC)

In their responses, both the SoS and Mother asked the Upper Tribunal to determine the appeal without holding a hearing. Father, in his email of 3 February, asked that a hearing be held.

It seems to me fair and just to determine the appeal, as well as Father’s applications, without a hearing: all three parties had the opportunity to make written submissions, through the process set out in case management directions; there was nothing in those written materials that required clarification or further explanation, to enable me to determine matters fairly and justly; and so holding a hearing would gave caused unnecessary delay.