Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs v NAMW [2004] FCAFC 264

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs v NAMW [2004] FCAFC 264

MIGRATION – application for a protection visa – whether country information was part of the reason for the decision – whether country information is non-disclosable information – whether failure to disclose country information resulted in a denial of procedural fairness

WORDS AND PHRASES – "information that is not specifically about the applicant or another person and is just about a class of persons of which the applicant or another person is a member".

Migration Act 1958 (Cth) ss 57 and 424A Baig v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2002] FCA 380 – cited Cooper Brookes (Wollongong) Proprietary Limited v The Commissioner of Taxation of the Commonwealth of Australia (1981) 147 CLR 297 – cited Kioa v West (1985) 159 CLR 550 – cited MacAlister v The Queen (1990) 169 CLR 324 – cited Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Al Shamry (2001) 110 FCR 27 – cited Muin v Refugee Review Tribunal (2002) 190 ALR 601 – cited NAHV of 2002 v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2003) 129 FCR 214 – cited NANF v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2004] FCA 292 – cited NAOA v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2004] FCAFC 241 – cited NARV v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2003) 203 ALR 494 – not followed Re Minister; Ex parte PT (2001) 75 ALJR 808 – cited Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs; Ex parte Miah (2001) 206 CLR 57 – cited Saraswati v The Queen (1991) 172 CLR 1 – cited Stead v State Government Insurance Commission (1986) 161 CLR 141 – cited VAAC v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2003) 129 FCR 168 – cited VAF v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2003) 206 ALR 471 – applied VEAJ v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2003] FCA 678 – cited VHAJ v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2003) 75 ALD 609 – not followed VHAP of 2002 v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2004] FCAFC 82 – considered VNAA v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2004] FCAFC 134 – cited VUAX v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2004] FCAFC 158 – cited MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS V NAMW, NAMX AND NAMY N 423 of 2004 BEAUMONT, MERKEL & HELY JJ 23 SEPTEMBER 2004 MELBOURNE (HEARD IN SYDNEY)