Minister erred in refusing to accept that Indian national had withdrawn application for residence

Asylum and immigration – judicial review – Indian national appealing decision that the UK is responsible for processing his asylum claim – application for residence permission based on his claimed parentage of an EU national child - wrote to withdraw his application on the basis that his relationship with the EU national by reference to whom his application had been grounded had broken down – Minister wrote informed him of intention to refuse the application – Minister decided that he ceased to be entitled to any right of residence – proposal to deport issued and then rescinded - whether the Minister erred in law and acted ultra vires in refusing to accept the relevant review application as being withdrawn - not open to the Minister after the withdrawal to treat the application as a live one – nothing to support contention that an application cannot be withdrawn without the permission of the Minister - court sees no legitimate objective in refusing to permit a review to be withdrawn, let alone doing so for the purpose of proceeding to make a purported finding in the context of the withdrawn application - not open to the Minister to subject a former applicant to a fact-finding process in respect of a withdrawn application - lawfulness is in any event fatally tainted by various deficiencies – whether the proceedings are moot - three decisions remain live and assailable – judicial review granted.