Judgment delivered by Mowbray FM on 21 September 2005 as

[2005] FMCA 1355

FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT OF AUSTRALIA

S320 of 2003 v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & ANOR (CORRIGENDUM) [2005] FMCA 1355

MIGRATION – Review of Refugee Review Tribunal decision – citizen of Bangladesh – low-level political activities – violence in Bangladesh – political opinion – whether Tribunal failed to consider claims – persecution – no jurisdictional error – application out of time – dismissed.

Migration Act 1958, s.477

Chan v Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs (1989) 169 CLR 379
Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs v Guo Wei Rong (1997) 191 CLR 559
NABE v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2004] FCAFC 263
Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth (2003) 211 CLR 476
Rahman v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [1999] FCA 73

SAAP & Anor v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2005] HCA 24

Applicant: APPLICANT S320 of 2003

First Respondent: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS

Second Respondent: REFUGEE REVIEW TRIBUNAL

File Number: SYG 1382 of 2004

Judgment of: Mowbray FM

Hearing date: 23 November 2004

Date of Last Submission: 23 November 2004

Heard at: Sydney

Delivered at: Canberra

Delivered on: 21 September 2005

REPRESENTATION

Counsel for the Applicant: L Karp

Solicitors for the Applicant: Parish Patience Immigration Solicitors

Counsel for the First Respondent: M Allars

Solicitors for the First Respondent: Australian Government Solicitor

ORDERS

1. The application be dismissed.

2. The applicant pay the respondent’s costs of the application fixed in the sum of $5000.

CORRIGENDUM

Judgment delivered by Mowbray FM on 21 September 2005 as [2005] FMCA 1355

Amend paragraph 32 to read:

1. Having carefully considered the applicant’s claims and submissions, I am satisfied that the Tribunal made no legal error going to jurisdiction in coming to its decision.

Delete paragraph 33.

Amend paragraph 34 to read:

1. The application must be dismissed with costs.

_____________________________________________________________________I certify that the preceding three paragraphs are a true copy of the Corrigendum to the Judgment [2005] FMCA 1355 of Mowbray FM.

Associate: Helen Athanasiadis

Date: 10 October 2005