Explanatory note

This Order amends the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Chambers) Order 2010 (“the 2010 Order”). The 2010 Order organised the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal into chambers and allocated functions between the chambers of those tribunals.

This Order adds a new function to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal. Where certain applications for judicial review are either made directly to the Upper Tribunal or transferred from the High Court in England and Wales to the Upper Tribunal, those applications will be allocated to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of that Tribunal.

An application meeting the condition specified in section 31A(8) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 is one which calls into question a decision of the Secretary of State not to treat submissions as an asylum claim or a human rights claim, within the meaning of Part 5 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, wholly or partly on the basis that they are not significantly different from material that has previously been considered (whether or not it calls into question any other decision). These applications are commonly referred to as ‘fresh claim’ judicial reviews.