SZLFQ & Anor v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
[2008] HCASL 568
SZLFQ & ANOR
v
MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP & ANOR
[2008] HCASL 568
S393/2008
The applicants are married. They are citizens of India. A delegate of the first respondent refused their application for protection visas.
The Refugee Review Tribunal upheld the delegate's decision. The claim of the husband rested on a contention that he was a Christian who had been targeted by Hindu fundamentalists. The Tribunal found that the husband's evidence as to his Christian beliefs and practice was very unconvincing, and that he had only a limited association with the Christian Church. He claimed that false charges had been levelled against him, that he had spent a month in prison, and that his son had been murdered by extremists. The Tribunal gave numerous detailed reasons for not accepting these claims.
An application for judicial review to the Federal Magistrates Court (Cameron FM) was unsuccessful. An appeal to the Federal Court of Australia (Moore J) was dismissed.
The documents filed in support of the applicants' application for special leave to appeal to this Court do not specify any specific error of law on the part of any of the courts below. The papers do not address themselves to the detail of the reasoning in the courts below. Were special leave to appeal to be granted, the appeal would have no prospects of success.
The application is dismissed.
Pursuant to r 41.10.5 we direct the Registrar to draw up, sign and seal an order dismissing the application.
M.D. Kirby J.D Heydon
2 December 2008
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