Lobo v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2003] FCA 144

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Lobo v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs

[2003] FCA 144 MIGRATION – visa subclass 845 – business visa – Migration Review Tribunal – constructive failure to exercise jurisdiction – whether privative clause decision ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – Tribunal's use of Departmental policy – inconsistency between legislation and policy – constructive failure to exercise jurisdiction – privative clause COURTS – precedent – alleged inconsistency between prior Full Court decision not overruled and later High Court decision – position of single judge Migration Act 1958 (Cth) s 474 Migration Regulations 1994 Sch 2 Craig v South Australia (1995) 184 CLR 163 cited Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth of Australia [2003] HCA 2, 195 ALR 24 considered Re Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs; Ex parte Applicants S134/2002 [2003] HCA 1, 195 ALR 1 considered NAAV v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2002] FCAFC 228, 193 ALR 449 followed NABM of 2001 v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2002] FCAFC 294 cited NAGT of 2002 v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2002] FCAFC 319 cited R v Hickman; Ex parte Fox & Clinton (1945) 70 CLR 598 cited R v War Pensions Entitlement Appeal Tribunal; Ex parte Bott (1933) 50 CLR 228 cited Colonial Bank of Australasia Ltd v Willan (1874) LR 5 PC 417 cited Re Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs; Ex parte Akpata (2002) 191 ALR 283 cited Zines, "Constitutional Aspects of Judicial Review of Administrative Action" (1998) 1 Constitutional Law & Policy Review 50 JOYCE LOBO, PHILIP ANDREW LOBO, REENA LOBO and RITISHKA LOBO v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS N 1283 OF 2002 GYLES J SYDNEY 6 MARCH 2003