[2025] UKUT 00150 (IAC)

These two appeals are unconnected but have been listed before us because they raise an important issue. There is a culture that has developed in statutory appeals of unfocused and poorly formulated grounds of appeal with excessive prolixity and complexity that impacts a proper consideration of the grounds when an application for permission to appeal is considered. This sometimes leads to a grant of permission to appeal on limited grounds, which, when properly considered at a hearing, are difficult to disentangle from grounds upon which permission was refused. That in turn causes unnecessary confusion when the appeal is heard regarding the scope of the appeal.

In each of the appeals, in this decision we simply address the scope of the appeal before the Upper Tribunal and having done so, the appeals will be listed separately for the Tribunal to consider whether the decision of the First-tier Tribunal (“FtT”) is infected by a material error of law, and if so, the appropriate course for the disposal of the appeal. We will not trespass upon the substantive merits of either appeal in this decision.