WAFG v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2003] FCA 93

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

WAFG v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2003] FCA 93

MIGRATION – deportation – whether respondent's decision to deport in error of law – whether respondent's decision beyond jurisdiction as a privative clause – whether service of non-disclosable document and subsequent retrieval from applicant gave rise to issues of procedural irregularity or natural justice constituting jurisdictional error

Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth) ss 39B, 39B(1A)(c) Migration Act 1958 (Cth) ss 5, 359A, 424A, 424(3), 474(2), 475A, 476, 499(1), 500(6F)(c) and (d), 501, 501(2), 501(6), 501(7)(c), 501(7)(d), 501(G) Migration Legislation Amendment (Judicial Review) Act 2001 (Cth) Federal Court Rules O 80, O 15 r 14, O 33 r 11

R v Hickman; Ex parte Fox & Clinton (1945) 70 CLR 598 followed Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth of Australia [2003] HCA 2 followed Alister v R (1984) 154 CLR 404 referred to National Bank v Saunders (1988) 12 NSWLR 623 referred to Young v Quin (1985) 4 FCR 483 referred to Chu v Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs (1997) 78 FCR 314 referred to Special Minister of State v Quin (1984) 3 FCR 293 followed Re Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs; Ex parte Miah (2001) 206 CLR 57 followed Re Refugee Review Tribunal; Ex parte Aala (2000) 204 CLR 82 followed McMullen v Commissioner for Superannuation (1985) 61 ALR 189 followed Air Canada v Secretary of State for Trade (No 2) [1983] 2 AC 394 approved Australian Securities Commission v Zarro (No 2) (1992) 34 FCR 427 followed Hooker Corporation Ltd v Darling Harbour Authority (1987) 9 NSWLR 538 followed Kabwand Pty Ltd v National Australia Bank Ltd (1987) 81 ALR 721 followed Great Atlantic Insurance Co v Home Insurance Co [1981] 2 All ER 485 referred to Attorney-General for the Northern Territory v Maurice (1986) 161 CLR 475 followed British Coal Corporation v Dennis Rye Pty Ltd [1988] 1 WLR 1113 followed WAFG OF 2002 v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS W70 of 2002 RD NICHOLSON J 20 FEBRUARY 2003 PERTH