[2024] UKUT 00065 (IAC)

Azizi (Succinct credibility findings; lies)

Heard at Field House

THE IMMIGRATION ACTS

Heard on 23rd June 2023

Promulgated on 13th August 2023

Before

THE HON. MR JUSTICE DOVE, PRESIDENT

MR C M G OCKELTON, VICE PRESIDENT

UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE BLUM

Between

ALAN OMER AZIZI

(ANONYMITY DIRECTION NOT MADE)

Appellant

and

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

Respondent

Representation:

For the Appellant: Mr Mark Symes instructed by Barns Harrild & Dyer

For the Respondent: Mr Clarke, Senior Presenting Officer

1. A determination in relation to an appeal must deal with the principal controversial issues presented to the judge, and it may be possible in some circumstances to provide adequate reasons in relation to those issues succinctly, provided they deal with the points raised by the party and enable the parties to understand why the decision has been reached.

2. Where an appellant accepts that he has told lies during his immigration history it will be appropriate to consider his explanation for telling those lies, and whether that explanation is accepted, as part of the fact finding process.