CLJ17 v Minister for Immigration & Anor and CLK17 v Minister for Immigration

The Federal Circuit Court of Australia heard applications for judicial review brought by CLJ17 and CLK17 against the Minister for Immigration and Anor. The applicants sought to challenge decisions of the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) which had refused their applications for protection (class XA) visas.

The central legal issues before the Court were whether the RRT's adverse credibility findings against the applicants were illogical or irrational, and whether the RRT had properly considered and applied the available country information in its assessment of the claims.

His Honour Judge Wilson found that the RRT's findings were open to it on the evidence presented. The Court determined that the applicants had failed to establish that the RRT's credibility assessments were illogical or irrational, nor had they demonstrated that the RRT had failed to properly engage with the country information relevant to their claims. Consequently, the applications for judicial review were dismissed.