[2024] UKUT 198 (AAC)

I allow the Appellant’s appeal to the Upper Tribunal. The decision of the First-tier Tribunal involves a legal error. For that reason, I set aside the Tribunal’s decision.

However, I refuse the Appellant’s reqest for an oral hearing of the Upper Tribunal appeal. The case now needs to be reheard by a new and different First-tier Tribunal. This will be at a local venue in Birmingham that is more convenient for the Appellant. I cannot predict what will be the outcome of the FTT re-hearing. So, the new tribunal may reach the same, or a different, outcome decision to that of the previous Tribunal. It all depends on the findings of fact that the new Tribunal makes.