[2025] UKUT 118 (AAC)

Permission was granted by Judge Stout on the papers on 07 August 2024. At para 16 she says;

“The appellant in his grounds of appeal identifies a number of matters that he contends amount to “mistakes of fact” in the DBS’s decision. The appellant, who is representing himself without legal advice, does not expressly identify any ground of appeal based on error of law. However, it seems to me that at least some of his grounds of appeal (individually or cumulatively) should properly also be categorised as contending that DBS’s decision to bar was in error of law as being disproportionate in the particular circumstances of the appellant’s case given the matters that he identifies in his grounds of appeal.”

Her decision was made on the basis that there is a realistic prospect of success that “there are arguable mistake(s) of law or fact in the decision of the DBS ...”.