AQB18 v Minister for Home Affairs

Registrar Ng of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia considered an application by AQB18 for judicial review of a decision made by the Minister for Home Affairs. The dispute concerned the Minister's refusal to grant AQB18 a visa.

The central legal issue before the Court was whether the Minister's decision to refuse the visa was affected by jurisdictional error. Specifically, the Court was required to determine if the delegate of the Minister had failed to consider relevant considerations or had taken into account irrelevant considerations when assessing AQB18's application.

Registrar Ng found that the delegate had failed to adequately consider the information provided by AQB18 regarding their circumstances, which constituted a failure to take relevant considerations into account. This failure was determined to be a jurisdictional error. Consequently, the decision of the Minister was set aside.