2304677 (Refugee)

The applicant sought review of a decision made by the 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 a delegate's decision when that same 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 AAT, it ceases to be a "reviewable decision" for the purposes of further review by the Tribunal. Consequently, the Tribunal concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to entertain a second review of the same delegate's decision. The Tribunal made no orders as it found it had no jurisdiction.