SZKUC & Ors v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

[2008] HCASL 462

SZKUC & ORS
v
MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP & ANOR
[2008] HCASL 462
S286/2008

1. The applicants are a husband, a wife and their two daughters.  They are citizens of the Russian Federation.

2. The Refugee Review Tribunal upheld a decision of a delegate of the first respondent rejecting their application for protection visas.

3. The applicants claim to fear persecution on religious grounds as Jehovah's Witnesses.  The husband claimed to have been dismissed from his employment and to have become an object of interest to the police.  It was claimed that the children had been ostracised at school.  The wife claimed to have been the victim of assaults and of an attempted rape.  Other forms of harassment were alleged.

4. The Tribunal rejected all these claims on credit grounds.

5. The Federal Magistrates Court (Cameron FM) rejected the applicants' application for judicial review on the ground that there had been no jurisdictional error.

6. The Federal Court of Australia (Marshall J) dismissed an appeal.

7. The papers filed by the applicants in support of their application for special leave to appeal to this Court are extremely brief and unparticularised.  They do not suggest that if special leave were granted an appeal would have any prospects of success.

8. The application is dismissed.

9. 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