Salh v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2020] FCA 349

Salh v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2020] FCA 349

The appeal failed because the Tribunal gave the appellants repeated opportunities to provide oral and documentary evidence that the first appellant had the skills, qualifications and employment background required for the nominated occupation, put them on notice that the genuineness of the qualifications was in issue, and was entitled to decide the review on the material before it after the appellants did not attend the hearing. The Court was not prepared to infer from the absence of an express reference that the Tribunal failed to have regard to the University Letter, and the Tribunal was not required to disclose the university's request for original documents because that matter was not...

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
18 March 2020
Procedural Posture
Migration Appeal / Appeal From the Federal Circuit Court Dismissal of an Application for Judicial Review of a Tribunal Decision Affirming Refusal of Temporary Business Entry (class Uc) (457) Visas
Outcome
Appeal dismissed; appellants ordered to pay the First Respondent's costs.
Legal Topics
['temporary Business Entry (class Uc) (457) Visa' 'skills, Qualifications and Employment Background for Nominated Occupation' 'procedural Fairness and Natural Justice' 'legal Unreasonableness' 'jurisdictional Error' 'migration Review Tribunal Review']
['migration Law' 'administrative Law'] ['temporary Business Entry (class Uc) (457) Visa' 'skills, Qualifications and Employment Background for Nominated Occupation' 'procedural Fairness and Natural Justice' 'legal Unreasonableness' 'jurisdictional Error' 'migration Review Tribunal Review']

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Procedural Posture

Migration Appeal / Appeal From the Federal Circuit Court Dismissal of an Application for Judicial Review of a Tribunal Decision Affirming Refusal of Temporary Business Entry (class Uc) (457) Visas

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ['Whether the Tribunal denied natural justice or failed to accord procedural fairness by failing to have regard to, or disclose the full effect of, the Kurukshetra University letter.' "Whether the Tribunal acted in a legally unreasonable way by relying on the first appellant's 26 March 2015 letter and making a decision without taking further steps to verify the claimed qualifications." 'Whether any question of utility in remitter arose if jurisdictional error was not established.']

Ratio Decidendi

The appeal failed because the Tribunal gave the appellants repeated opportunities to provide oral and documentary evidence that the first appellant had the skills, qualifications and employment background required for the nominated occupation, put them on notice that the genuineness of the qualifications was in issue, and was entitled to decide the review on the material before it after the appellants did not attend the hearing. The Court was not prepared to infer from the absence of an express reference that the Tribunal failed to have regard to the University Letter, and the Tribunal was not required to disclose the university's request for original documents because that matter was not...

Court Disposition

Appeal dismissed; appellants ordered to pay the First Respondent's costs.

Orders

  • ['The name of the First Respondent be amended to Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs.' 'The Appellants have leave to amend the grounds of appeal in the form of the Amended Notice of Appeal filed on 20 February 2010.' 'The appeal be dismissed.' "The Appellants pay the...