MZYPY v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2014] FCAFC 68

MZYPY v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2014] FCAFC 68

The appeal was dismissed because the appellant was given an adequate opportunity to put his case in writing, including an express invitation to provide further information before assessment under the Minister's guidelines. The undisclosed country information did not contain anything substantively new or different from material already disclosed or known to the appellant, and no practical injustice was shown. The second respondent considered the adviser’s material, did not reject the country reports as not credible, and permissibly found that they did not provide a credible basis to contradict earlier adverse findings or establish a personal risk of significant harm. The second respondent...

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
27 June 2014
Procedural Posture
Migration Judicial Review Appeal / Appeal From the Federal Circuit Court Dismissing an Application for Judicial Review of a Departmental Decision Not to Recommend Lifting the S 46 a Bar.
Outcome
Appeal dismissed.
Legal Topics
['procedural Fairness' 'complementary Protection' 's 46 a Bar' 'country Information' 'failed Asylum Seekers']
['migration' 'administrative Law'] ['procedural Fairness' 'complementary Protection' 's 46 a Bar' 'country Information' 'failed Asylum Seekers']

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Procedural Posture

Migration Judicial Review Appeal / Appeal From the Federal Circuit Court Dismissing an Application for Judicial Review of a Departmental Decision Not to Recommend Lifting the S 46 a Bar.

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ["Whether the primary judge erred in rejecting the appellant's claims that he had been denied procedural fairness in the second respondent's consideration of his case for the purposes of s 46A of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth)." 'Whether procedural fairness required the appellant to be given a further or oral opportunity to put his complementary protection case.' 'Whether procedural fairness required disclosure of country information relied upon by the second respondent concerning treatment of failed Tamil asylum seekers returning to Sri Lanka.' "Whether the second respondent failed to consider the material provided by the appellant's adviser or wrongly rejected it as not credible without notice." "Whether the second respondent misconceived his task by conducting a full substantive complementary protection assessment rather than assessing whether the case met the Minister's guidelines for referral."]

Ratio Decidendi

The appeal was dismissed because the appellant was given an adequate opportunity to put his case in writing, including an express invitation to provide further information before assessment under the Minister's guidelines. The undisclosed country information did not contain anything substantively new or different from material already disclosed or known to the appellant, and no practical injustice was shown. The second respondent considered the adviser’s material, did not reject the country reports as not credible, and permissibly found that they did not provide a credible basis to contradict earlier adverse findings or establish a personal risk of significant harm. The second respondent...

Court Disposition

Appeal dismissed.

Orders

  • ['The appeal be dismissed.' 'The appellant pay the costs of the first respondent as agreed or assessed.']