AFP20 v Minister for Immigration and Anor

AFP20 (the applicant) sought judicial review of a decision by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (the Tribunal) to dismiss an amended application for a Protection visa. The Minister for Immigration and Anor (the first respondent) was the other party. The matter came before Judge Street in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia.

The central legal issue before the Court was whether the Tribunal had committed a jurisdictional error by failing to comply with section 425 of the *Migration Act 1958* (Cth) due to alleged errors of interpretation.

Judge Street found that no jurisdictional error had been made out. The Court concluded that the Tribunal had not failed to comply with its obligations under section 425 of the *Migration Act*. Consequently, the applicant's amended application was dismissed.

The applicant was ordered to pay the first respondent's costs, fixed at $7,467.00.