MC v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2026] UKUT 122 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Mitchell on 07 March 2026.
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Judicial Summary
While DBS’ analysis of the Appellant’s history of violence may have been flawed, DBS would have made the same decision even if that history had ignored. On DBS’ findings, the Appellant’s history of violence involved him slapping his partner in 2009, and punching a 14-year-old relative in 2012, which showed, according to DBS, that he had a propensity to use violence and held ‘pro violence’ beliefs. However, DBS also relied on far more recent incidents amounting, on DBS’ findings, to a dereliction of the Appellant’s duties as a care worker. The Upper Tribunal was satisfied that, had DBS only taken the more recent incidents into account, they would have made the same barring decision.