Loessi v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2007] FCA 1891

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Loessi v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2007] FCA 1891 MIGRATION – consideration of whether the Migration Review Tribunal fell into jurisdictional error in identifying and applying to the facts as found a test of whether an applicant for a visa had net assets of an amount less than $AUD250,000 adequate to conduct a particular business, for the purposes of subclause 457.223(7A)(c)(iv)(B) of Schedule 2 of the Migration Regulations made pursuant to the Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

Decision Appeal dismissed with costs

Migration Act 1958 (Cth), s 31, s 65, s 359, s 359A, s 359(2), s 359C, s 360(1) and s 360(2) Migration Regulations, Reg. 2.01, Schedule 1, clause 1223A, Schedule 2, clauses 457.21, 457.22, 457.223(7), 457.223(7A), 457.511(c)

Loessi v Minister for Immigration & Anor [2006] FMCA 1697 Lukac v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2004] FCA 1641 Craig v South Australia (1995) 184 CLR 163 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Yusuf (2001) 206 CLR 323 Lobo v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2003) 132 FCR 93 R v Australian Stevedoring Industry Board Ex parte Melbourne Stevedoring Co. Pty Ltd (1953) 88 CLR 100 Australian Broadcasting Tribunal v Bond (1990) 170 CLR 321 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Eshetu (1999) 197 CLR 611 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs v SGLB (2004) 207 ALR 12 Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Ex parte Applicant S20/2002 (2003) 198 ALR 59 Plaintiff 157/2002 v Commonwealth of Australia (2003) 211 CLR 476

EDWARD JOHN LOESSI v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND MIGRATION REVIEW TRIBUNAL QUD483 OF 2006

GREENWOOD J

30 NOVEMBER 2007