February 1, 2025

UTIAC Practice Statements

Immigration and Asylum Chamber (Upper Tribunal)Tribunals Practice Guidance

Please find below Practice Statements for Judges and members of the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber.

1. Practice Statement authorising Legal Officers in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) to carry out functions of a judicial nature (21 May 2024, Senior President of Tribunals)
NB: This Practice Statement replaces the previous Practice Statement authorising Legal Officers in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) to carry out functions of a judicial nature dated 20 April 2023.

2. Practice Statement authorising legally qualified members of staff in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) to carry out functions of a judicial nature (PDF) (21 May 2024, Senior President of Tribunals)
NB: This Practice Statement replaces the previous Practice Statement authorising legally qualified members of staff in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) to carry out functions of a judicial nature dated 9 December 2013 and 6 April 2020.

3. Practice Statement authorising Legal Officers to carry out functions of a judicial nature in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal (20 April 2023, Senior President of Tribunals)

4. Practice Statement authorising legally qualified members of staff in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) to carry out functions of a judicial nature (PDF) (6 April 2020, Senior President of Tribunals)

5. Practice Statement: Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal Delegation of Functions to staff on or after 9 December 2013 (9 December 2013, Senior President of Tribunals)

6. Practice Statement: Immigration Judicial Reviews in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal (UTIAC) on or after 1 November 2013 (PDF) (1 November 2013, Senior President of Tribunals)
NB: This Practice Statement replaced the Practice Statement: Fresh Claim Judicial reviews in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal on or after 29 April 2013 and supplemented the Senior President’s Practice Direction in respect of applications for judicial review, where the application and the proceedings to which it related were designated as an immigration matter, either in a direction made by the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, or in an order made under section 31A(3) of the Senior Courts Act 1981, transferring a specific application from the High Court to the Upper Tribunal.