Case No. UKUT-00038-(IAC)
Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber

Case No. UKUT-00038-(IAC)

Fecha: 23-Nov-2021

DECISION AND REASONS

1. This decision falls into two parts. In this main part we give our decision on this appeal. In the Annex we determine a procedural issue that arose during it. The numbering of the paragraphs is intentionally continuous. 2. The appellant is a national of Pakistan. She appealed to the First-tier Tribunal on human rights grounds against the decision of the respondent on 9 January 2020 refusing her application for entry clearance for settlement as a dependent relative. In the first-tier Tribunal her appeal was heard by Judge Devlin. 3. At the beginning of that hearing, the appellant’s representative (not Mr Biggs) told the judge that she proposed to call oral evidence from a doctor in Pakistan, who would give evidence by video-link from Pakistan. The Presenting Officer (not Mr Melvin) objected on the ground that no notice had been given of the appellant’s intentions and that the guidance in