Al-Asam v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2001] FCA 127

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Al-Asam v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2001] FCA 127

MIGRATION – protection visa – Iraqi citizen – review of tribunal decision affirming refusal – whether decision involved errors of law – whether failure to observe procedures – whether absence of evidence or other material to support certain findings – whether misapplication of relocation principle – whether decision induced or affected by actual bias Migration Act 1958 (Cth), s 476 Tharairasa v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs (2000) 98 FCR 281, referred to Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs v Singh (2000) 98 FCR 469, followed Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs v Guo (1997) 191 CLR 559, applied Adams v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs (1997) 70 FCR 591, followed Chen v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [1999] FCA 34, cited Curragh Queensland Mining Limited v Daniel (1992) 34 FCR 212, followed Pat Tai Choi v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (Lindgren J, 2 December 1998, unreported), followed Randhawa v Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs (1994) 52 FCR 437, applied Laws v Australian Broadcasting Tribunal (1990) 170 CLR 70, followed Sun Zhan Qui v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs (1997) 81 FCR 71, followed Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs v Sameh [2000] FCA 578, distinguished Al-Amidi v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 1081, distinguished R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal; Ex parte Daniel Boahin Jonah [1995] IMM AR 7, followed Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status at p 133 Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee and International Law, Clarendon Press Oxford 1996 at p 74 Nicholson Twomey eds, Refugee Rights and Realities at p 332