SZJZV v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

[2008] HCASL 458

SZJZV
v
MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP & ANOR
[2008] HCASL 458
S227/2008

1. The applicant is a citizen of India.  The Refugee Review Tribunal upheld a decision of a delegate of the first respondent refusing the applicant's application for a protection visa.

2. His claim was partly based on the proposition that, as a Catholic, he feared persecution from the family of a Hindu girl with whom he was in love.  The Tribunal rejected that claim:  he had not seen the Hindu woman for six years, he did not support the claim by any evidence, the claim was belated, and his oral evidence was not credible.

3. His claim was also based on a fear of persecution from a gang of rowdies on whom he had informed to the police.  The Tribunal did not accept that he was an informant, on credibility grounds.  It was not satisfied that any harm which might be suffered was related to the Refugees Convention.  And it was satisfied that the applicant would receive adequate State protection, and that he could relocate within India.

4. The Federal Magistrates Court (Nicholls FM) declined to order judicial review on the ground that there was no jurisdictional error in the Tribunal's decision.

5. An appeal to the Federal Court of Australia was dismissed by Gilmour J.

6. The papers filed by the applicant in support of his application for special leave to appeal to this Court are formulaic.  They disclose no ground which could support a successful appeal were special leave granted.

7. The application is dismissed.

8. Pursuant to r 41.10.5 we direct the Registrar to draw up, sign and seal an order dismissing the application for special leave.

   M.D. Kirby  J.D. Heydon
   7 August 2008