“…llowed by local authorities’. The Merton principles had been approved and discussed by this court in R (Z) v Croydon London Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 59; [2011] PTSR 748. This court had repeated that age assessments should not be ‘judicialised’. Except in clear cases, appearance alone could not ‘be a basis for determining age’.…”
“… that Stanley Burnton J advocated was subsequently endorsed and elaborated upon by the Court of Appeal in R(FZ) v London Borough of Croydon [2011] EWCA Civ 59, [2011] PTSR 748 and R(ZS) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA (Civ) 1137. Age assessments which follow the guidance in that line of authority are commonly…”