CBX15 v Minister for Home Affairs [2020] FCA 1304

CBX15 v Minister for Home Affairs [2020] FCA 1304

The application for an extension of time was dismissed because the almost three-year delay was extremely lengthy and inadequately explained, all proposed appeal grounds were new and not raised before the primary judge, and each proposed ground was not reasonably arguable or was weak with little prospect of success. The s 438 non-disclosure and passport access complaints were not material because the applicant and his advisers already knew of the passport, its stated place of birth, and the information about its authenticity; the Tribunal's passport and citizenship reasoning was not shown to be unreasonable or illogical; the "what if I am wrong" argument was not tied to any finding about...

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
15 September 2020
Procedural Posture
Migration Application for Extension of Time to File an Appeal From Dismissal of Judicial Review of a Protection Visa Refusal / Application for Extension of Time
Outcome
Application for extension of time dismissed; applicant ordered to pay the first respondent's costs of the application.
Legal Topics
['extension of Time to Appeal' 'protection Visa Refusal' 'jurisdictional Error' 'migration Act 1958 (cth) S 438 Certificate' 'materiality' 'new Grounds on Appeal' 'unreasonableness and Illogicality' 'interpreter Error']
['migration' 'administrative Law' 'procedural Fairness'] ['extension of Time to Appeal' 'protection Visa Refusal' 'jurisdictional Error' 'migration Act 1958 (cth) S 438 Certificate' 'materiality' 'new Grounds on Appeal' 'unreasonableness and Illogicality' 'interpreter Error']

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Procedural Posture

Migration Application for Extension of Time to File an Appeal From Dismissal of Judicial Review of a Protection Visa Refusal / Application for Extension of Time

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ['Whether the applicant should be granted an extension of time to appeal almost three years after the Federal Circuit Court judgment.' 'Whether proposed grounds not raised before the primary judge had sufficient merit to justify an extension of time.' 'Whether failure to disclose the existence of a Migration Act 1958 (Cth) s 438 certificate or provide access to passport material denied procedural fairness in a material way.' "Whether the Tribunal acted unreasonably, illogically, or without active intellectual consideration in relation to the applicant's passport, place of birth, citizenship and claimed statelessness." 'Whether the Tribunal failed to apply a "what if I am wrong" analysis to its citizenship finding.' 'Whether the Tribunal failed to consider whether the applicant would need to conceal or modify behaviour to avoid persecution.' 'Whether an interpretation error deprived the Tribunal of considering a claim based on birthplace.']

Ratio Decidendi

The application for an extension of time was dismissed because the almost three-year delay was extremely lengthy and inadequately explained, all proposed appeal grounds were new and not raised before the primary judge, and each proposed ground was not reasonably arguable or was weak with little prospect of success. The s 438 non-disclosure and passport access complaints were not material because the applicant and his advisers already knew of the passport, its stated place of birth, and the information about its authenticity; the Tribunal's passport and citizenship reasoning was not shown to be unreasonable or illogical; the "what if I am wrong" argument was not tied to any finding about...

Court Disposition

Application for extension of time dismissed; applicant ordered to pay the first respondent's costs of the application.

Orders

  • ['The application for an extension of time filed on 4 March 2019 be dismissed.' "The applicant pay the first respondent's costs of the application."]