2018474 (Refugee)

The applicant sought review of a decision concerning a protection visa application made in Thailand. The respondent, the delegate of the Minister, had made a decision regarding this application. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) was asked to review this decision.

The central legal issue before the Tribunal was whether it possessed jurisdiction to review the delegate's decision. This question arose because the delegate's 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. Consequently, the Tribunal's jurisdiction in relation to that specific decision is extinguished. The Tribunal concluded that it did not have jurisdiction in the present matter.

The Tribunal ordered that it does not have jurisdiction in this matter.