Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Tennakoon v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2001] FCA 1650
SURANGA INDIKA TENNAKOON v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS V259 of 2001 MADGWICK J 2 NOVEMBER 2001 MELBOURNE
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
VICTORIAN DISTRICT REGISTRY V259 of 2001
BETWEEN: SURANGA INDIKA TENNAKOON APPLICANT AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS RESPONDENT
JUDGE: MADGWICK J
DATE OF ORDER: 2 NOVEMBER 2001
WHERE MADE: MELBOURNE
THE COURT ORDERS THAT: 1. The application for an adjournment be refused. 2. The application for review be refused. 3. The applicant pay the respondent's costs.
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
VICTORIAN DISTRICT REGISTRY V259 of 2001
BETWEEN: SURANGA INDIKA TENNAKOON APPLICANT AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS RESPONDENT
JUDGE: MADGWICK J
DATE: 2 NOVEMBER 2001
PLACE: MELBOURNE
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT (revised from transcript) HIS HONOUR: 1 The applicant, a citizen of Sri Lanka, arrived in Australia on 2 November 1997. He did not lodge an application for a protection visa until over three years later, on 19 December 2000. During that time he returned to Sri Lanka for three weeks in April 2000 to visit his ailing father. 2 The applicant has had free legal advice arranged by the Court under the scheme much resorted to in Victoria, provided for by O 80 of the Federal Court Rules. Despite that, the application for review to this Court remains unclarified. The grounds of application are stated to be: "There is no legal representation for me on this case so I would find Legal Representation and present my Arguments on my grounds and the RRT has taken a very wrong Decision on this case. I would like you to over turn the Decision and to relooked my Decision on the RRT." 3 At the time of lodging his application, the applicant was detained in purported immigration detention in a state prison, and one could forgive the informality of the
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