Goundar, K. v. Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs [1994] FCA 791

JUDGMENT NO. sevsnt leed! Ete

CATCHWORDS MIGRATION ) INTERPRETATION ) - whether s. 6A(1)(e) involved separate "humanitarian" and "compassionate" grounds - whether the

reference in reg. 173A(2)(a) to "humanitarian grounds" is a reference to s. 6A(1)(e) or only to an assumed ground within it or to the ground stated in s. 47(1)(g) - context of departmental opinion about the effect of s. 6A(1)(e) - principle of beneficial construction of provision for review and narrow construction of exclusion as being a provision affecting a procedural safeguard of an individual right.

Migration Act 1958, ss. 6A(1)(e) and 47(1)(g) Migration Legislation Amendment Act 1989, s. 6(4) Migration Regulations, reg. 173A

Wentworth v. New South Wales Bar Association (1992) 176 CLR Vv. tor- al of Department Youth and Communit Services (1987) 7 NSWLR 541 Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v. Sciascia (1991)

31 FCR 364

Annetts v. McCann (1990) 170 CLR 596 Re Bolton: Ex parte Beane (1987) 162 CLR 514

n, Local ve d Ethnic atfaire (1992) 33 PCR 480

mmnigration ocal Government

Ethnic Atzaice (unreported, it J., 12 December 1989) atio 1 Government d

Ethnic Affairs (1989) 18 ALD 425

KAN Vv. N R_ FOR TION NG 875 of 1993

Burchett J. Sydney 31 October 1994 FEDERAL COURT OF

PRINCIP, REGIST ins

INTHE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ) ) NEW TH W, DISTRICT ISTRY ) NG 875 of 1993 } GENERAL DIVISION ) BETWEEN: KANTA NDAR Applicant

AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION, LOCAL

GOVERNMENT AND ETHNIC AFFALRS Respondent

CORAM: Burchett J. PLACE: Sydney DATE : 31 October 1994

ER F_ THE RL

THE COURT ORDERS THAT: 1. The applicant bring in on a date to be fixed short minutes

of orders appropriate to reflect the reasons of the Court.

2. The respondent pay the applicant's costs.

NOTE

Settlement and entry of orders is dealt with in Order 36 of the Federal Court Rules.