BXV17 v Minister for Home Affairs [2020] FCA 195

BXV17 v Minister for Home Affairs [2020] FCA 195

The appeal failed because the Tribunal did not make the positive no-evidence finding alleged about Ms Iqbal's family but merely was not satisfied of the appellants' claim; the Tribunal expressly considered the claim concerning generalised sectarian violence towards Shia Muslims and found only a remote chance or no real risk on the evidence; and the Tribunal considered the MQM claim and gave reasonable and intelligible reasons for not pursuing the proposed inquiry, so no jurisdictional error was shown in the Federal Circuit Court's decision.

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
27 February 2020
Procedural Posture
Appeal From Orders of the Federal Circuit Court Dismissing an Application for Judicial Review of an Administrative Appeals Tribunal Decision Affirming Refusal of Protection Visas / Federal Court Appeal
Outcome
Appeal dismissed with costs.
Legal Topics
['jurisdictional Error' 'no Evidence Ground' 'failure to Consider Claims' 'legal Unreasonableness' 'protection Visa Criteria' 'tribunal Duty to Inquire']
['administrative Law' 'migration Law' 'refugee and Protection Visas'] ['jurisdictional Error' 'no Evidence Ground' 'failure to Consider Claims' 'legal Unreasonableness' 'protection Visa Criteria' 'tribunal Duty to Inquire']

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Procedural Posture

Appeal From Orders of the Federal Circuit Court Dismissing an Application for Judicial Review of an Administrative Appeals Tribunal Decision Affirming Refusal of Protection Visas / Federal Court Appeal

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ["Whether the Federal Circuit Court erred in failing to find jurisdictional error on the basis that there was no evidence for the Tribunal's treatment of whether Ms Iqbal's family were Sunni or Pashtun." "Whether the Tribunal failed to consider an integer of the first appellant's claim concerning generalised sectarian violence towards Shia Muslims in Pakistan." 'Whether the Tribunal committed jurisdictional error by not contacting a person said to have been in charge of an MQM unit.']

Ratio Decidendi

The appeal failed because the Tribunal did not make the positive no-evidence finding alleged about Ms Iqbal's family but merely was not satisfied of the appellants' claim; the Tribunal expressly considered the claim concerning generalised sectarian violence towards Shia Muslims and found only a remote chance or no real risk on the evidence; and the Tribunal considered the MQM claim and gave reasonable and intelligible reasons for not pursuing the proposed inquiry, so no jurisdictional error was shown in the Federal Circuit Court's decision.

Court Disposition

Appeal dismissed with costs.

Orders

  • ['The appeal be dismissed.' "The appellants pay the first respondent's costs, to be agreed or assessed."]