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Past hearings
2023
January 2023
4 Jan 2023 | Andrew Maynard | 2nd IOR Summary |
5 Jan 2023 | John Snelgrove | 1st Substantive Review |
6 Jan 2023 | Sean Hughes | 2nd IOR Summary |
9 - 10 Jan 2023 | Khairul Rahman and Sania Shah | Substantive Decision |
8-12 Aug 2022 & 9-13 Jan 2023 |
John Asuen | Substantive decision |
19 Jan 2023 |
Dawn Lamb | Substantive Decision |
23 Jan 2023 |
Aisha Hussain | 2nd IOR summary |
24 Jan2023 |
John Hooley | Substantive Decision |
25 Jan 2023 |
Ashraf Patel | 2nd IOR summary |
2022
December 2022
22 Dec | Daniel Holden | IO summary |
12-16 Dec | Jayant Dattani | Substantive decision |
14 Dec | Mariam Haling | 1st IOR Summary |
21-23 Sept, 28-30 Sept, 6, 7, 13 & 16 Dec |
Naseem Suleman | Substantive Decision (Appeal) |
20 Dec |
Robert Fyfe | 1st IOR Summary |
November 2022
01 November | John Watson | 3rd IOR Summary |
04 November | Mehdi Azizi | 2nd Reg Appeal |
08 November | Roger Lee | 2nd Substantive Review Summary |
09 November | Jane Lai | 1st Substantive Review Summary |
10 November | Satnam Bansal | 2nd IOR Summary |
11 November | Nirmal Koasha | 5th IOR summary |
11 November | Lokesh Prabhakar | 6th IOR summary |
14 - 15 November | Zahra Mogra | Substantive decision |
15 - 22 November | Gary Marshall | Substantive decision |
24 November | Richard Carr | 1st IOR summary |
28-30 November | Christopher Parrish | Substantive Hearing |
October 2022
6 Oct | Priyal Patel | 1st IOR summary |
7 Oct | Amar Iqbal | 2nd IOR summary |
13 Oct | Omer Arshad | 3rd IOR Summary |
14 Oct | Simon Rose | 2nd IOR summary |
19 Oct | Alan Henderson | 2nd IOR Summary |
21 Oct | Stuart Maxwell | Substantive decision |
21 Oct | Matthew Bickerstaffe | 2nd IOR summary |
27 Oct | Sam Silver | 1st IOR summary |
24-28 Oct | Nirmal Koasha | Substantive decision |
05, 14 and 28 Oct | Sufyan Malik | Restoration Application |
31 Oct - 3 Nov | Alistair Aiken | Substantive decision |
September 2022
01 Sept | Jade Butler | Substantive decision Summary |
06 Sept | Keith Coakham | 2nd IOR Summary |
12 Sept | Ibrar Ahmed | IO Application summary |
05 Sept | Michael Moon | Substantive decision |
22 Sept | Scott Brown | 1st IOR Summary |
26 Sept | Tina Stevens | Substantive decision |
28 Sept | Malti Amin | 2nd Sub Review decision |
29 Sept | Raj Shivraj | Reg Appeal decision |
August 2022
1 Aug | Mohammed Nawaz | Substantive (APD) decision |
9 August | Christopher Hurst | |
23 Sept - 1 Oct 2021 27 Jan – 4 Feb 2022 13 June – 17 June 2022 8 – 11 Aug 2022 |
Zahir Ibrahim | Substantive decision |
17 August 2022 | Sophie Kenyon | Reg Appeal decision |
July 2022
7 July 2022 | Frederick Kimsey | Substantive decision |
11-13 July 2022 | Rob Lamont | Substantive decision |
18 July 2022 | Ross Hutcheson | Substantive (APD) decision |
4-26 July 2022 | Honey Rose | Substantive (remitted) |
May 2022
30 May | Mary Docherty | Substantive (APD) |
April 2022
13-14 April | Mark Davis | Substantive decision |
March 2022
29 Feb - 1 Mar 2022 | Shahid Sujawal | Substantive (APD) |