ESQ18 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2021] FCAFC 44

ESQ18 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2021] FCAFC 44

The appeal was allowed on the basis that the Immigration Assessment Authority failed to consider a claim that clearly emerged from the materials, namely the possibility of the appellant facing a real chance of serious harm as a failed asylum seeker returning from a western country. This failure was a jurisdictional error, as the claim was raised by the delegate and was not abandoned or withdrawn, and the Authority erred in deciding not to consider it.

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
26 March 2021
Procedural Posture
Appeal / Appellate Judgment; From Federal Circuit Court to Full Federal Court
Outcome
Appeal allowed
Legal Topics
['judicial Review' 'legal Unreasonableness' 'migration Protection Visa' 'procedural Fairness']
['migration Law' 'administrative Law'] ['judicial Review' 'legal Unreasonableness' 'migration Protection Visa' 'procedural Fairness']

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Procedural Posture

Appeal / Appellate Judgment; From Federal Circuit Court to Full Federal Court

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ['Whether the Immigration Assessment Authority was legally unreasonable in failing to exercise discretion under s 473DC of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) to seek further information' "Whether the Authority failed to consider an 'unarticulated claim' regarding risk of harm as a failed asylum seeker returning from a western country"]

Ratio Decidendi

The appeal was allowed on the basis that the Immigration Assessment Authority failed to consider a claim that clearly emerged from the materials, namely the possibility of the appellant facing a real chance of serious harm as a failed asylum seeker returning from a western country. This failure was a jurisdictional error, as the claim was raised by the delegate and was not abandoned or withdrawn, and the Authority erred in deciding not to consider it.

Court Disposition

Appeal allowed

Orders

  • ['The appeal be allowed.' 'The orders of the primary judge made on 6 March 2020 be set aside.' "The appellant's application for judicial review be remitted to the Federal Circuit Court of Australia (varied: remitted to the second respondent for decision according to law)." 'An order in the nature of certiorari be...