SZBZF v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2006] FCA 471

SZBZF v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2006] FCA 471

The grounds in the applicant's second application and foreshadowed appeal raised substantially the same issues as those pursued and rejected in the first application and did not fairly raise new issues. If Driver FM's order was interlocutory, it was not attended with sufficient doubt to warrant leave to appeal, and in any event the judgment disclosed no appellable error. Whether characterised as a question of jurisdiction, abuse of process, res judicata or estoppel, any appeal was doomed to failure.

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
01 May 2006
Procedural Posture
Application for Leave to Appeal From a Federal Magistrates Court Decision Dismissing an Application for Judicial Review of a Refugee Review Tribunal Decision / Leave to Appeal
Outcome
Application for leave to appeal dismissed.
Legal Topics
['protection Visa' 'refugee Review Tribunal' 'judicial Review' 'leave to Appeal' 'res Judicata' 'anshun Estoppel' 'abuse of Process' 'privative Clause Decision' 'procedural Fairness' 'apprehended Bias']
['migration Law' 'administrative Law' 'civil Procedure'] ['protection Visa' 'refugee Review Tribunal' 'judicial Review' 'leave to Appeal' 'res Judicata' 'anshun Estoppel' 'abuse of Process' 'privative Clause Decision' 'procedural Fairness' 'apprehended Bias']

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Procedural Posture

Application for Leave to Appeal From a Federal Magistrates Court Decision Dismissing an Application for Judicial Review of a Refugee Review Tribunal Decision / Leave to Appeal

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ["Whether leave to appeal should be granted from Driver FM's dismissal of the second judicial review application." "Whether the applicant's second Federal Magistrates Court application was incompetent because the challenged Tribunal decision was a privative clause decision in relation to which the Federal Magistrates Court had no jurisdiction." 'Whether the second application sought to relitigate substantially the same claims raised and rejected in earlier proceedings, so as to be barred by res judicata, Anshun estoppel or amount to an abuse of process.' "Whether Driver FM's judgment disclosed appellable error."]

Ratio Decidendi

The grounds in the applicant's second application and foreshadowed appeal raised substantially the same issues as those pursued and rejected in the first application and did not fairly raise new issues. If Driver FM's order was interlocutory, it was not attended with sufficient doubt to warrant leave to appeal, and in any event the judgment disclosed no appellable error. Whether characterised as a question of jurisdiction, abuse of process, res judicata or estoppel, any appeal was doomed to failure.

Court Disposition

Application for leave to appeal dismissed.

Orders

  • ['The application for leave to appeal be dismissed.' "The applicant pay the first respondent's costs of the application to be fixed in the sum of $2,500.00."]