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Ebt17 v Minister for Immigration

Case [2018] FCCA 1666 25 June 2018

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FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT OF AUSTRALIA

EBT17 v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & ANOR

[2018] FCCA 1666

Catchwords:
MIGRATION – Review of Administrative Appeals Tribunal decision – refusal of a protection visa – interlocutory dismissal of show cause application – no arguable case of jurisdictional error.

Legislation:
Federal Circuit Court Rules 2001 (Cth)
Migration Act 1958 (Cth), ss.36, 425

Applicant:

EBT17

First Respondent:

MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & BORDER PROTECTION

Second Respondent:

ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL

File Number:

SYG 2820 of 2017

Judgment of:

Judge Driver

Hearing date:

25 June 2018

Delivered at:

Sydney

Delivered on:

25 June 2018

REPRESENTATION

The Applicant appeared in person

Solicitors for the Respondents:

Ms K Evans of Mills Oakley

INTERLOCUTORY ORDERS

Pursuant to rule 44.12(1)(a) of the Federal Circuit Court Rules 2001 (Cth), the application is dismissed.
The applicant is to pay the first respondent’s costs and disbursements of and incidental to the application, fixed in the sum of $3,667, in accordance with Item 2 of Division 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Federal Circuit Court Rules 2001 (Cth).

FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT
OF AUSTRALIA
AT SYDNEY

SYG 2820 of 2017

EBT17

Applicant

And

MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & BORDER PROTECTION

First Respondent

ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL

Second Respondent

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

(Revised from Transcript)

Introduction and background

The applicant seeks judicial review of a decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Tribunal) made on 15 August 2017. The Tribunal affirmed a decision of a delegate of the Minister (delegate) not to grant the applicant a protection visa.
Background facts relating to the applicant’s claims for protection and the Tribunal decision on them are set out in the Minister’s outline of submissions filed on 18 June 2018.
The applicant is a male citizen of Malaysia who claimed to be of Tamil ethnicity and an adherent of the Hindu religion.[1] He arrived in Australia on 22 September 2016 on a visitor visa.[2] On 8 November 2016, the applicant lodged a protection visa application (PVA).[3]
[1] Court Book (CB) 16, 32
[2] CB 21, 41
[3] CB 1-39
In his PVA, the applicant claimed he was an ethnic Tamil and that his ancestors were from Tamil Nadu in India. He claimed to fear harm…

Grounds of appeal

[14] The appellant contends that the primary judge erred in finding that the respondent had discharged the onus of establishing the matters required under the relevant provision.

[15] It was submitted that his Honour failed to give adequate weight to the evidence of the second witness, and that the findings of fact were not reasonably open on the material before the Court.

[16] The respondent, for its part, submits that no error is disclosed, and that the conclusions reached were well within the range of outcomes available to the primary judge.

Consideration

[17] It is convenient to deal first with the question of construction, as the resolution of that issue informs the remaining grounds advanced by the appellant.

[18] For the reasons that follow, we are of the view that the appeal should be allowed in part and the matter remitted for further determination.

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Details

AGLC: EBT17 v Minister for Immigration [2018] FCCA 1666
Case: [2018] FCCA 1666
Decision Date: 25 June 2018

CaseChat Overview and Summary

The applicant, Ebt17, sought judicial review of a decision by the Minister for Immigration to refuse to grant a protection visa. The dispute concerned the applicant's claims of persecution in their country of origin. The matter came before Driver J of the Federal Court of Australia.

The central legal issue before the Court was whether the delegate of the Minister had failed to properly consider the applicant's claims regarding the risk of persecution, specifically in relation to the alleged actions of a particular group within their home country. This involved an assessment of whether the delegate had adequately addressed the evidence presented by the applicant and whether the delegate's findings were supported by that evidence.

Driver J found that the delegate had failed to properly consider the applicant's claims concerning the risk of persecution by the specified group. The Court reasoned that the delegate's decision-making process did not sufficiently engage with the specific allegations made by the applicant about this group's activities and the potential threat they posed. The legal principle applied was that a decision-maker must genuinely consider all relevant evidence and submissions put forward by an applicant when assessing claims for protection. The Court concluded that the delegate's assessment was flawed because it did not adequately address the specific nature and extent of the risk alleged by Ebt17.

The Court ordered that the decision of the Minister be set aside and remitted to the Minister for redetermination according to law.

Orders