IPAT entitled to exclude spouses from hearing each other’s evidence during joint hearings

Asylum and immigration – judicial review – married South African nationals challenging the decision of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal refusing them asylum – similar issues arising – joint hearing - joint hearings allowed in certain circumstances - issue of exclusion of one applicant during the evidence of the other applicant may fall for consideration – given the option of two separate back-to-back hearings or a joint hearing where each would be excluded from the other’s oral evidence - willing to consent to leaving the hearing room for each other’s evidence in the context of a joint hearing – their accounts were inconsistent - individualised assessment of their claims – adverse credibility issues arose from their evidence – judicial review issued - conduct of the joint hearing – they were not excluded - they were personally present for a part of the joint hearing but they were represented by a legal adviser throughout – not an improper exclusion – waiver - issuing of a joint decision – cases were individually considered - no injustice was done to either applicant by the procedure adopted - credibility as to past event - litany of material on which the tribunal member was entitled to act in drawing the adverse credibility finding - adverse credibility findings were well within the jurisdiction of the tribunal - future assessment of risk - tribunal expressly considered the question of future risk and did so in a lawful manner – judicial review refused –