MD v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 116 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Jacobs on 1 April 2025.

From:
HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
Published
2 May 2025
Categories:
Safeguarding vulnerable groups
Sub-categories:
Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Finding of fact
Judges:
Jacobs, E
Decision date:
1 April 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2024-000482-V.

Judicial Summary

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 - section 4(2)(b) – appeal on mistake of fact – distinction between fact in issue and fact that makes fact in issue more or less probable - Upper Tribunal heard oral evidence and made its own assessment of evidence – no mistake of fact – decision of Disclosure and Barring Service confirmed.

Updates to this page

Published 2 May 2025