1814628 (Refugee)

The applicant sought review of a decision made by a delegate of the Minister regarding a protection visa. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) was asked to determine whether it had jurisdiction to review the delegate's decision.

The central legal issue before the Tribunal was whether it retained jurisdiction to review the delegate's decision, given that the decision had previously been the subject of a valid review by the Tribunal.

The Tribunal reasoned that once a decision has been validly reviewed by the Tribunal, it ceases to be a "reviewable decision" for the purposes of further review by the Tribunal. Consequently, the Tribunal concluded that it no longer possessed jurisdiction in relation to that specific decision. The Tribunal therefore found it had no jurisdiction in the matter.