Chinese mother wins legal fight to stay in UK

JAMES MULHOLLAND

The government decision was upheld by a specialist immigration court.

Both lawyers acting for Ms Zheng and the government later accepted that the court had made the wrong decision with the evidence at its disposal. She then went to an appeal tribunal. The appeal judge upheld the decision made by the first tier tribunal.

However, in coming to this decision, the appeal judge reconsidered the evidence that had already been considered by their colleague at the first level court.

In a written judgment issued yesterday, judges Lord Glennie, Lord Menzies and Lady Clark of Calton quashed the decision of the appeal tribunal not to allow her asylum.

In the opinion, Lord Glennie wrote that government lawyers wanted the court to remit the case back to the upper tribunal.

He added: “This might have been the appropriate course if we had held that the UT was entitled to open up the fact findings made by the First Tier Tribunal judge.

“In those circumstances the quality of the reasoning given by the Upper Tribunal for arriving at different findings of fact on the question of forced sterilisation might have been open for discussion.

“However, for reasons already stated, the quality of the Upper Tribunal’s reasoning is not the issue. The question is whether it should have been doing it at all.

“We have found that it should not have embarked on this exercise.” THE traditional view of landscape painting will be questioned by the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) summer exhibition, its curator has said.

Against the Landscape, curated by painter Daniel Sturgis in collaboration with arts institute Grizedale Arts, will run in the school’s Reid Building from Saturday until August 23.

The exhibition features work by artists such as Patrick Caulfield CBE, including Inside a Cave, which was hung yesterday and sculptor Eva Rothschild.

Mr Sturgis believes the display will challenge people’s perceptions of what landscape paintings traditionally look like.