AIL16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCA 250

AIL16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCA 250

The proposed appeal grounds did not disclose sufficient prospects of success to warrant an extension of time. The particular social group ground did not identify Federal Circuit Court error because the applicants had not put that case to the Tribunal or the Federal Circuit Court, and in substance it restated claims the Tribunal had considered, including that the first applicant was a businessman and financial supporter of JI. The Tribunal sufficiently engaged with the case put to it and accepted substantial parts of it; it was not obliged in the circumstances to make its own inquiries about the claimed JI leadership position. The applicants therefore did not show error in the Federal...

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
12 March 2018
Procedural Posture
Practice and Procedure; Migration; Application for Extension of Time Within Which to Appeal / Application Under R 36.05 of the Federal Court Rules 2011 (cth) for an Extension of Time to Appeal From a Federal Circuit Court Decision Dismissing Judicial Review of an Administrative Appeals Tribunal Decision Affirming Refusal of Protection Visas
Outcome
Application for extension of time dismissed with costs.
Legal Topics
['extension of Time to Appeal' 'protection (class Xa) Visa' 'jurisdictional Error' 'particular Social Group' 'complementary Protection' 'failure to Make Inquiries' 'active Intellectual Process']
['administrative Law' 'migration Law' 'practice and Procedure'] ['extension of Time to Appeal' 'protection (class Xa) Visa' 'jurisdictional Error' 'particular Social Group' 'complementary Protection' 'failure to Make Inquiries' 'active Intellectual Process']

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Procedural Posture

Practice and Procedure; Migration; Application for Extension of Time Within Which to Appeal / Application Under R 36.05 of the Federal Court Rules 2011 (cth) for an Extension of Time to Appeal From a Federal Circuit Court Decision Dismissing Judicial Review of an Administrative Appeals Tribunal Decision Affirming Refusal of Protection Visas

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ['Whether an extension of time should be granted to appeal from the Federal Circuit Court decision' "Whether the Tribunal failed to consider the first applicant's claimed membership of particular social groups described as regular financial contributors of the JI and businessmen holding a political opinion supporting the JI" 'Whether the Tribunal fell into jurisdictional error by failing to engage in an active intellectual process' "Whether the Tribunal fell into jurisdictional error by failing to make inquiries concerning the first applicant's claimed leadership position in JI"]

Ratio Decidendi

The proposed appeal grounds did not disclose sufficient prospects of success to warrant an extension of time. The particular social group ground did not identify Federal Circuit Court error because the applicants had not put that case to the Tribunal or the Federal Circuit Court, and in substance it restated claims the Tribunal had considered, including that the first applicant was a businessman and financial supporter of JI. The Tribunal sufficiently engaged with the case put to it and accepted substantial parts of it; it was not obliged in the circumstances to make its own inquiries about the claimed JI leadership position. The applicants therefore did not show error in the Federal...

Court Disposition

Application for extension of time dismissed with costs.

Orders

  • ['The application for extension of time be dismissed.' 'The first and second applicants pay the first respondents costs as agreed or assessed.']