Zaman v Minister for Immigration

In *Zaman v Minister for Immigration*, heard before Driver J of the Federal Court of Australia, the applicant sought judicial review of a decision by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) to refuse a student visa. The applicant had also made an interlocutory application to dismiss a show cause notice issued by the Minister.

The primary legal issue before the Court was whether the applicant had an arguable case of jurisdictional error in relation to the AAT's decision. This involved considering whether the AAT had failed to exercise its jurisdiction or had wrongly exercised it.

Driver J found that the applicant had not demonstrated an arguable case of jurisdictional error. The Court concluded that the AAT's decision was not vitiated by any error of law that would warrant intervention. Consequently, the interlocutory application to dismiss the show cause notice was dismissed.