Thevendram v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [1999] FCA 182

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Thevendram v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [1999] FCA 182

MIGRATION –whether applicant had well founded fear of political persecution by reason of perceived association with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – whether Tribunal erred in not making findings in relation to material relied upon as a reason for the applicant's fear of political persecution - duty of the Tribunal to have regard to all the material and evidence before it and to make findings on all the material questions of fact raised by evidence

Migration Act 1958 (Cth) ss 430, 476

Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Guo (1997) 144 ALR 567 – applied

Emiantor v The Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (1997) 48 ALD 635 - cited

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Epeabaka (1999) FCA 1 - cited

Paramananthan v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs 160 ALR 24 - cited

Kandiah v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (Federal Court of Australia, Finn J, 3 September 1998) - applied

Logenthiran v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (Federal Court of Australia, Wilcox, Lindgren and Merkel JJ, 21 December 1998) - applied

Calado v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (Federal Court of Australia, Moore, Mansfield, and Emmett JJ, 2 December 1998) – cited

Buljeta v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (Federal Court of Australia, Katz J, 4 December 1998) – cited

Muralidharan v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs(1996) 62 FCR 402 - cited

Meadows v The Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (Federal Court of Australia, Einfeld, von Doussa and Merkel JJ, 23 December 1998) - considered

APPUCUTTY THEVENDRAM v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS

VG 295 of 1998