BOV15 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCA 648

BOV15 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCA 648

The appeal failed because the Tribunal identified and evaluated the appellant's submission about indirect threats. The Tribunal referred to the substance of that submission, considered the evidence of indirect threats, found that what the appellant heard through third parties was rumours and suppositions rather than threats made directly or indirectly, and was entitled to give significant weight to the lack of direct contact by YT or his associates after the appellant's acquittal. The appellant did not show that a clearly articulated submission of substance was not evaluated, so no jurisdictional error was established.

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
15 May 2018
Procedural Posture
Appeal From the Federal Circuit Court of Australia Dismissing an Application for Judicial Review of a Tribunal Decision Refusing a Protection (class Xa) Visa / Appeal
Outcome
Appeal dismissed with costs.
Legal Topics
['protection Visa' 'jurisdictional Error' 'failure to Consider a Submission of Substance' 'well Founded Fear of Persecution' 'indirect Threats']
['migration' 'administrative Law'] ['protection Visa' 'jurisdictional Error' 'failure to Consider a Submission of Substance' 'well Founded Fear of Persecution' 'indirect Threats']

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Procedural Posture

Appeal From the Federal Circuit Court of Australia Dismissing an Application for Judicial Review of a Tribunal Decision Refusing a Protection (class Xa) Visa / Appeal

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ["Whether the Federal Circuit Court erred in not finding jurisdictional error in the Tribunal's decision" 'Whether the Tribunal failed to evaluate a clearly articulated submission of substance that it was unlikely the appellant would receive direct threats and that he had received indirect threats' "Whether the Tribunal's reasons showed an active intellectual process directed to the appellant's submission about indirect threats"]

Ratio Decidendi

The appeal failed because the Tribunal identified and evaluated the appellant's submission about indirect threats. The Tribunal referred to the substance of that submission, considered the evidence of indirect threats, found that what the appellant heard through third parties was rumours and suppositions rather than threats made directly or indirectly, and was entitled to give significant weight to the lack of direct contact by YT or his associates after the appellant's acquittal. The appellant did not show that a clearly articulated submission of substance was not evaluated, so no jurisdictional error was established.

Court Disposition

Appeal dismissed with costs.

Orders

  • ['The appeal is dismissed.' "The appellant pay the first respondent's costs as agreed or assessed."]