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Gilson, John Kenneth v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs

Gilson, John Kenneth v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs

Case [1997] FCA 642

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AGLC: Gilson, John Kenneth v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [1997] FCA 642
Case: [1997] FCA 642
Decision Date: 21 JULY 1997

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Gilson, John Kenneth v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [1997] FCA 642

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Chief Commissioner of Police v Nikolic [2016] VSCA 248

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Bui v Minister for Immigration [2019] FCCA 3363
Citation 1 (Para 7)

…variety of situations: see, for example, DNS; Finch v Grieve (1991) 22 NSWLR 578 at 596; Gilson v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [1997] FCA 642. Third, that Courts have upheld claims of public interest immunity over documents to which section 376 of the Act applies: see El Jejieh v Minister f…
Shen v Minister for Home Affairs [2019] FCCA 538
Citation 2 (Para 7)

…ing to the administration of justice must be powerful indeed if the policy against revealing an informer's identity is to be overcome . . . . [9] [1997] FCA 642 [10] Cases omitted…
SZTYV v MIBP [2018] FCCA 64
Citation 3 (Para 3)

…against revealing an informer's identity is to be overcome . . . . [68] See, for example, Sankey v Williams (1978) 142 CLR 1 at pages 65-66 [69] [1997] FCA 642 [70] Cases omitted…
Chief Commissioner of Police v Nikolic [2016] VSCA 248
Citation 4 (Para 1)

…ltimately not necessary for the judge to rule on the question, he stated his conclusion that the claim of public interest immunity was made out.) [47][1997] FCA 642 (‘ Gilson ’).…

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Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Wu Shan Liang [1996] HCA 6
Citation 1

…Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Wu Shan Liang (1996) 185 CLR 259 Kioa v West (1985) 159 CLR 550 Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs v Kurtovic (1990) 92 ALR 93 Chu Sing Wun v Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs (1993) 118 ALR 345…
Jacobsen v Rogers [1995] HCA 6
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…w by the Tribunal. I was not referred to any authority to the contrary of that proposition and, in support of it, I was referred to Jacobsen v Rogers (1995) 182 CLR 572; see also Suzanne B McNicol Law of Privilege (1992) at 380 ff.…
Commonwealth v Northern Land Council [1993] HCA 24
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…Moges Eshetu v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs , Full Court, 10 July 1997, unreported Commonwealth v Northern Land Council (1993) 176 CLR 604 D v National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children [1978] AC 171 Zarro v Australian Securities Commission (1992) 36 FCR 40…
Kioa v West [1985] HCA 81
Citation 4

…Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Wu Shan Liang (1996) 185 CLR 259 Kioa v West (1985) 159 CLR 550 Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs v Kurtovic (1990) 92 ALR 93 Chu Sing Wun v Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs (1993) 118 ALR 345…
Alister v the Queen [1984] HCA 85
Citation 5

…e diffidence necessarily arising from the circumstance that, whereas I have seen the documents, counsel for Mr Gilson has not ( Alister v The Queen (1983) 154 CLR 404 at 469); the approach I am taking, however, seems to be precisely that which the Full Court sanctioned in Zarro . My conclusion is, therefore, that the…
Zarro v Australian Securities Commission [1992] FCA 233
Citation 6

…Land Council (1993) 176 CLR 604 D v National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children [1978] AC 171 Zarro v Australian Securities Commission (1992) 36 FCR 40…
Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs v Kurtovic [1990] FCA 22
Citation 7

…hnic Affairs v Wu Shan Liang (1996) 185 CLR 259 Kioa v West (1985) 159 CLR 550 Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs v Kurtovic (1990) 92 ALR 93 Chu Sing Wun v Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs (1993) 118 ALR 345…
Young v Quin [1985] FCA 18
Citation 8

…dly a public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of the documents: that is clearly so in the case of police informers ( Cain v Glass (No.2) (1985) 3 NSWLR 230); it seems to be equally so in the case of those giving information, in confidence, to other bodies charged with the enforcement of the law ( D v Natio…

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