Fenner v Repatriation Commission [2005] FCA 27

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Fenner v Repatriation Commission [2005] FCA 27 VETERANS' AFFAIRS – nature of hypothesis – whether the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (the Tribunal) erred in identifying the hypotheses put forward by the appellant on the basis that the Tribunal defined the hypotheses too narrowly or included in the hypotheses detailed factual claims that were not part of the hypotheses as put by the appellant – whether the Tribunal erred in determining only on the balance of probabilities whether or not the facts upon which the hypotheses were based did or did not occur – whether the Tribunal erred in failing to take into consideration the beneficial nature of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (Cth). Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (Cth) s 44 Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (Cth) ss 9, 13, 119(1)(f), 119(1)(g), 119(1)(h), 120(1), 120(3), 120A(3) Repatriation Commission v Deledio (1998) 83 FCR 82 applied Bull v Repatriation Commission (2001) 34 AAR 326; [2001] FCA 1832 cited Parnell-Schoneveld v Repatriation Commission (2003) 74 ALD 37; [2003] FCA 153 cited Grundman v Repatriation Commission (2001) 66 ALD 125; [2001] FCA 892 cited Roncevich v Repatriation Commission [2002] FCA 1458 cited Repatriation Commission v Bey (1997) 79 FCR 364 cited Roncevich v Repatriation Commission (2003) 75 ALD 345; [2003] FCAFC 146 cited Roncevich v Repatriation Commission [2004] HCATrans 379 cited Repatriation Commission v Hill (2002) 69 ALD 581; [2002] FCAFC 192 cited Bushell v Repatriation Commission (1992) 175 CLR 408 cited Byrnes v Repatriation Commission (1993) 177 CLR 564 cited Browne v Dunn (1893) 6 R 67 (HL) cited Reid v Kerr (1974) 9 SASR 367 cited Allied Pastoral Holdings Pty Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation [1983] 1 NSWLR 1 cited Haberfield v Department of Veterans Affairs as Delegate for Comcare (2002) 121 FCR 233; [2002] FCA 1579 cited Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs v Wu Shan Liang (1990) 185 CLR 259 cited Repatriation Commission v Nugent [2003] FCA 1184 cited Repatriation Commission v Turner [2004] FCA 1184 cited Dunlop v Repatriation Commission [2002] FCA 1400 cited