SZOMY v Minister for Immigration

Case

[2010] FMCA 765

29 September 2010


FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT OF AUSTRALIA

SZOMY v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & ANOR [2010] FMCA 765
MIGRATION – Non appearance.
Federal Magistrates Court Rules 2001
Applicant: SZOMY
First Respondent: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & CITIZENSHIP
Second Respondent: REFUGEE REVIEW TRIBUNAL
File Number: SYG 1461 of 2010
Judgment of: Raphael FM
Hearing date: 29 September 2010
Date of Last Submission: 29 September 2010
Delivered at: Sydney
Delivered on: 29 September 2010

REPRESENTATION

For the Applicant: No appearance
Solicitors for the Respondents: Clayton Utz

ORDERS

  1. Application dismissed pursuant to r.13.03C(1)(c) of the Federal Magistrates Court Rules 2001.

  2. Applicant to pay the First Respondent’s costs assessed in the sum of $3,700.00.

FEDERAL MAGISTRATES
COURT OF AUSTRALIA
AT SYDNEY

SYG 1461 of 2010

SZOMY

Applicant

And

MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & CITIZENSHIP

First Respondent

REFUGEE REVIEW TRIBUNAL

Second Respondent

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

  1. In this matter the applicant lodged an application to review a decision of the Refugee Review Tribunal made on 31 May 2010 on 1 July 2010.  On 22 July 2010 she attended a directions hearing before the Registrar and signed some short minutes of order which included an order that the matter would be set down for hearing before me today at 2.15 pm.  The applicant was not present at 2.15 pm and she was not present when her name was called outside the Court at 2.30 pm.

  2. I note that she did not attend an interview with the delegate, nor did she attend a hearing before the Tribunal, although she wrote to the Tribunal later to explain that she was in Adelaide on the hearing day and asked for another hearing.

  3. In these circumstances I am prepared to accede to the request by the respondent that the application should be dismissed through non-appearance pursuant to Part 13, rule 13.03C(1)(c) of the Federal Magistrates Court Rules2001 and I order that the applicant pay the first respondent’s costs which I assess in the sum of $3,700.00.

I certify that the preceding three (3) paragraphs are a true copy of the reasons for judgment of Raphael FM

Associate: 

Date:  6 October 2010

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