Part 2: Asylum Chapter 5: Priority removal notices Section 24: Expedited appeals: joining of related appeals
Overview: This section provides that where a person brings an expedited appeal under section 82A of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, certain other appeals brought by that person are also to be subject to the expedited procedure as a "related appeal".
	Background: The aim of this section is to prevent people from using the appeal process as a means of frustrating their removal, by ensuring that where an individual is subject to the expedited appeal process, any "related appeal" (which will normally be heard at the First-tier tribunal) should be joined to the expedited appeal and transferred to the Upper Tribunal. This will make sure that the expedited appeal process provides finality and that an individual has no outstanding appeal rights once the expedited appeal process is concluded.
	Subsections 1, 2 and 5 define an expedited section 82 appeal, a related appeal and an expedited related appeal for the purpose of this section.
	Subsections 3 and 4 provide for a related appeal that is pending or that may be brought to the First-tier Tribunal, to be transferred to the Upper Tribunal where an expedited section 82 appeal is brought.
	Subsection 6 sets out that Tribunal Procedure Rules must make provision to ensure that an expedited section 82 appeal and an expedited related appeal are combined or heard together.
	Subsection 7 provides that Tribunal Procedure Rules must allow for the Upper Tribunal to make an order to remove a case from the expedited process when it is the only way to secure that justice is done. Accordingly, the expedited related appeal will continue as an appeal in the First-tier Tribunal and be transferred there.
	Subsection 8 defines pending appeal for the purpose of this section.
	Subsection 9 amends section 13(8) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 to provide that any decision of the Upper Tribunal on an expedited related appeal is an "excluded decision" for the purposes of that Act so that there is no right of appeal to the Court of Appeal.