Anjum, Naveed v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [1998] FCA 1633

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA Migration - application for review of decision by Refugee Review Tribunal refusing grant of a protection visa – whether persecution requires 'systematic harassment' - whether the Tribunal failed to give reasons for its decision – whether the Tribunal failed to set out its findings on material questions of fact. Migration Act 1958 (Cth), ss 36(2), 430(1), 476(1)(a), 476(1)(b), 476(1)(e). Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Article 1A(2).

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