SZDOU v MIMIA & Anor

[2006] HCATrans 92

[2006] HCATrans 092

IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Office of the Registry
  Sydney  No S474 of 2005

B e t w e e n -

SZDOU

Applicant

and

MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS

First Respondent

REFUGEE REVIEW TRIBUNAL

Second Respondent

Application for special leave to appeal

Publication of reasons and pronouncement of orders

GUMMOW J
HEYDON J

TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

AT CANBERRA ON TUESDAY, 7 MARCH 2006, AT 9.47 AM

Copyright in the High Court of Australia

GUMMOW J:   The applicant is a Muslim Indian citizen who claims to fear persecution on religious and political grounds.  The Refugee Review Tribunal concluded that his profile was too low to give rise to a real chance of persecution.

An application for judicial review to the Federal Magistrates Court was dismissed for want of any jurisdictional error.  The Federal Court of Australia dismissed an appeal. 

So far as the documents filed in support of the applicant’s application for special leave to appeal allege jurisdictional errors, they do not substantiate them.  There are insufficient prospects of success to warrant a grant of special leave.  Special leave is refused.

Pursuant to r.41.10.5 we direct the Registrar to draw up, sign and seal an order dismissing the application for special leave.  I publish the disposition signed by Heydon J and myself.

AT 9.48 AM THE MATTER WAS CONCLUDED