DYQ16 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2020] FCA 106

DYQ16 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2020] FCA 106

The application for extension of time was dismissed because the proposed appeal lacked merit. The Federal Circuit Court’s conclusions rejecting claims of jurisdictional error in the Tribunal’s credibility and discrimination findings were unimpeachable. The Tribunal’s adverse findings about the applicant’s credibility regarding religious conversion and Tamang ethnicity were open to it on the evidence and did not amount to jurisdictional error. The delay was adequately explained and short, but poor prospects of success for the appeal were decisive.

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
13 February 2020
Procedural Posture
Application for Extension of Time to Appeal (judicial Review, Migration) / Determination of Extension of Time Application; Judgment on Merits of Proposed Appeal
Outcome
Application dismissed with costs
Legal Topics
['extension of Time to Appeal' 'judicial Review' 'protection Visa' 'jurisdictional Error' 'credibility Assessment' 'complementary Protection']
['administrative Law' 'migration Law'] ['extension of Time to Appeal' 'judicial Review' 'protection Visa' 'jurisdictional Error' 'credibility Assessment' 'complementary Protection']

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Procedural Posture

Application for Extension of Time to Appeal (judicial Review, Migration) / Determination of Extension of Time Application; Judgment on Merits of Proposed Appeal

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ['Whether applicant should be granted extension of time to appeal judgment refusing judicial review of migration decision' 'Whether appeal has merit—jurisdictional error concerning credibility findings and assessment of complementary protection']

Ratio Decidendi

The application for extension of time was dismissed because the proposed appeal lacked merit. The Federal Circuit Court’s conclusions rejecting claims of jurisdictional error in the Tribunal’s credibility and discrimination findings were unimpeachable. The Tribunal’s adverse findings about the applicant’s credibility regarding religious conversion and Tamang ethnicity were open to it on the evidence and did not amount to jurisdictional error. The delay was adequately explained and short, but poor prospects of success for the appeal were decisive.

Court Disposition

Application dismissed with costs

Orders

  • ['The name of the first respondent be changed to Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs.' "The applicant's application for an extension of time within which to file an appeal is dismissed." "The applicant pay the first respondent's costs of the application, to be assessed...