[2025] UKUT 238 (AAC)

Our task in this appeal is confined to determining whether DBS made a mistake in a finding of fact on which its decisions were based. The law is framed in such a way that we cannot make any determination as regards whether DBS’s decisions to include AB in the barred lists were appropriate.

With that in mind, we now go through DBS’s key factual findings one by one (with the factual finding in question set out it bold italics at the start of the relevant discussion), review the evidence before us (both documentary in the bundle, and the oral evidence of AB at the hearing), and explain our conclusions as to whether any of DBS’s factual findings was mistaken.