WAMB v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2007] FCA 66

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

WAMB v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2007] FCA 66 MIGRATION – refugees – appeal – application for review of refusal to grant protection visa – appellant sought to submit material to refugee review tribunal in a language other than English – tribunal declined to receive material or to receive translation from appellant – appellant provided oral description of content to tribunal – tribunal relying on its understanding of that oral description – whether tribunal in error of law in considering the appellant's description in all the circumstances – whether procedural fairness denied

Migration Act 1958 (Cth) ss 420, 422B, 424 MZWKU v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2006] FCA 996 NAIS vMinister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2005) 223 ALR 171 NASB v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2004] FCAFC 24 NBIO v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2006] FCA 1300 Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Ex parte Applicant S20/2002 (2003) 198 ALR 59 SZBPQ v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2005] FCA 568 Uddin v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2001] FCA 90 VWFP and VWFO v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2006] FCA 231 WAIJ v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2004) 80 ALD 568 X v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (2002) 116 FCR 319 WAMB v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS and REFUGEE REVIEW TRIBUNAL WAD 135 OF 2006

NICHOLSON J

7 FEBRUARY 2007

PERTH IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

WESTERN AUSTRALIA DISTRICT REGISTRY WAD 135 OF 2006

ON APPEAL FROM THE FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT OF AUSTRALIA