Anthonypillai v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 1368

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Anthonypillai v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 1368

MIGRATION – protection visa – finding by Tribunal that as the applicant concocted detention and mistreatment claims any inquiry of an attorney who could give evidence corroborating the claims would not assist the Tribunal – whether a duty to inquire – whether the Tribunal failed to give proper, genuine and realistic consideration to the applicant's detention and mistreatment claims

Migration Act 1958 (Cth) s 427(1)

Majeed v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 470 - applied Rahman v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 1277 - applied Li v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (1999) 96 FCR 125 – cited Li v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 172 - cited Addo v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [1999] FCA 940 - cited Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Singh [2000] FCA 845 - cited Kahn v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1987) 14 ALD 291 – applied Hindi v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1998) 20 FCR 12-15 – applied Brouussard v Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs (1989) 21 FCR 472 – applied Surinakova v Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs (1991) 33 FCR 87 – cited Mocan v Refugee Review Tribunal (1966) 42 ALD 241 – cited Paramananthan v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (1998) 94 FCR 28 - cited Baban v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 1341 – cited Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Epeabaka (1998) 84 FCR 411 – cited Hill v Green (1999) 48 NSWLR 161 - cited ANTHONYPILLAI v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS V 464 OF 1999 JUDGE: MERKEL J PLACE: MELBOURNE DATE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2000