Rule 8 Amendments to the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008I1

in paragraph (1), after “proceedings” insert “save that a party in an asylum or immigration case may not be represented by any person prohibited from representing by section 84 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999^f1”;

in paragraph (9), after “that Act,” insert “a qualified person as defined in section 84(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999,”; and

after paragraph (9) insert—

“(10)

In an asylum case or an immigration case, an appellant’s representative before the First-tier Tribunal will be treated as that party’s representative before the Upper Tribunal, unless the Upper Tribunal receives notice—

(a)

of a new representative under paragraph (2) of this rule; or

(b)

from the appellant stating that they are no longer represented.”.