Ahamed v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 1325

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Ahamed v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 1325 IMMIGRATION – protection visa – Refugee Review Tribunal – duty to inquire – findings as to credibility – whether Tribunal properly addressed requirement for well-founded fear of persecution under Refugee Convention – sufficiency of reasons – grounds reduced to attack on factual conclusions – generalised evidence about existence of practice of fabricating documents among Bangladeshi asylum seekers – questionable reliability – risk of unlawful discrimination – no basis for review disclosed – application dismissed.

Migration Act 1958 (Cth) Rahman v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 1277 cited Prasad v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1985) 6 FCR 155 cited Foxtel Management Pty Ltd v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (2000) 173 ALR 362 cited Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs v Singh [2000] FCA 845 cited JAFAR AHAMED v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS W95 OF 2000 FRENCH J 8 SEPTEMBER 2000 PERTH

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

WESTERN AUSTRALIA DISTRICT REGISTRY W95 OF 2000

BETWEEN: JAFAR AHAMED

APPLICANT

AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS

RESPONDENT

JUDGE: FRENCH J

DATE OF ORDER: 8 SEPTEMBER 2000

WHERE MADE: PERTH

THE COURT ORDERS THAT:

1. The application be dismissed.

2. The Applicant is to pay the Respondent's costs of the application,

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

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

WESTERN AUSTRALIA DISTRICT REGISTRY W95 OF 2000

BETWEEN: JAFAR AHAMED

APPLICANT

AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS

RESPONDENT