CXN18 v Minister for Home Affairs

The applicant, CXN18, sought judicial review of a decision made by a delegate of the Minister for Home Affairs. The dispute concerned the validity of the applicant's second application for a protection visa, which the delegate had determined was invalid by force of section 48A of the *Migration Act 1958* (Cth). The matter came before Dowdy J in the Federal Court of Australia.

The primary legal issue before the Court was whether the delegate's decision that the second protection visa application was invalid under section 48A of the *Migration Act* was affected by jurisdictional error. The applicant contended that certain asserted grounds of jurisdictional error, including a 'data breach', vitiated the delegate's decision.

Dowdy J reasoned that none of the grounds of asserted jurisdictional error advanced by the applicant had the effect of invalidating the delegate's decision. The Court found that the delegate correctly applied section 48A of the *Migration Act* in determining that the second protection visa application was invalid. Consequently, no jurisdictional error was identified.

The application for judicial review was dismissed.