Abdel-Hady v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCAFC 164

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Abdel-Hady v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCAFC 164 Appeal from: Abdel-Hady v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCA 535

File number: NSD 752 of 2018

Judges: GREENWOOD ACJ, CHARLESWORTH AND O'CALLAGHAN JJ

Date of judgment: 28 September 2018

Catchwords: MIGRATION – cancellation of visa on character grounds – whether visa holder denied procedural fairness – whether decision to cancel visa affected by legal unreasonableness APPEAL AND NEW TRIAL – oral submissions raising arguments not advanced on notice of appeal – arguments not advanced before primary judge – arguments unmeritorious

Legislation: Migration Act 1958 (Cth) ss 476A, 499, 501

Cases cited: Abdel-Hady v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCA 535 Hopkins v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2007] FCA 1108 Howells v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2004) 139 FCR 580 Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v Eden (2016) 240 FCR 158 Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v Stretton (2016) 237 FCR 1 Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v WZARH (2015) 256 CLR 326 Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v Li (2013) 249 CLR 332 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs v George (2004) 139 FCR 127 Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs; Ex parte Lam (2003) 214 CLR 1 Tuncok v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2004] FCAFC 172