O'Donoghue v Honourable Brendan O'Connor (No 2) [2011] FCA 985

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

O'Donoghue v Honourable Brendan O'Connor (No 2) [2011] FCA 985 Citation: O'Donoghue v Honourable Brendan O'Connor (No 2) [2011] FCA 985

Parties: VINCENT O'DONOGHUE v THE HONOURABLE BRENDAN O'CONNOR, MINISTER FOR JUSTICE, THE HONOURABLE PHILIP MAXWELL RUDDOCK, FORMER ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA and GRAEME NEIL CALDER

File number: WAD 88 of 2011

Judge: GILMOUR J

Date of judgment: 29 August 2011

Catchwords: EXTRADITION – application for review of the Minister's decision to surrender the applicant under s 22 Extradition Act 1988 (Cth) – challenge to decisions made at several stages to the extradition proceedings – whether jurisdictional and procedural error issuing s 16 notice – whether Magistrate's s 19 determination beyond jurisdiction, unlawful, void – whether Minister made jurisdictional errors, failed to consider relevant circumstances erred in law – speciality assurance – humanitarian considerations – whether applicant may be prejudiced at trial.

Legislation: Extradition Act 1988 (Cth) ss 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 16, 19, 21, 22, 23, Migration Act 1958 (Cth) s 430 Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 (Cth) Sch 1 Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth) s 39B Prosecution of Offences Act 1974 (Ireland) s 2(5)

Cases cited: Attorney-General of the Commonwealth v Foster (1999) 84 FCR 582 Avon Downs Pty Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1949) 78 CLR 353 Brock v Minister for Home Affairs (2008) 170 FCR 434 Chu v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1997) 78 FCR 314 Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v Kainhofer (1995) 185 CLR 528 Foster v Minister for Customs & Justice (1999) 164 ALR 357 Foster v Minister for Customs and Justice (2000) 200 CLR 442 Harris v Attorney-General of the Commonwealth (1994) 52 FCR 386 Hempel v Attorney-General (Cth) (1987) 77 ALR 641 McHugh Holdings Pty Ltd v Director General Communities NSW [2009] NSWSC 1359 Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v SZIAI (2009) 83 ALJR 1123 Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v SZMDS (2010) 240 CLR 611 Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Teoh (1994-1995) 183 CLR 273 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Jia Le Geng (2001) 205 CLR 507 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v W157/00A (2002) 125 FCR 433 Murrumbidgee Groundwater Preservation Association Inc v Minister for Natural Resources [2005] NSWCA 10; (2005) 138 LGERA 11 Oates v Attorney-General (Cth) (2001) 181 ALR 559 O'Donoghue v Ireland (2008) 234 CLR 599 O'Donoghue v Ireland (2009) 263 ALR 392 O'Donoghue v Ireland [2009] FCA 618 O'Donoghue v Ireland [2010] HCASL 152 O'Donoghue v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2010] FCA 1486 Pasini v United Mexican States (2002) 209 CLR 246 Public Service Board of New South Wales v Osmond (1986) 159 CLR 656 Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs; Ex parte Palme (2003) 216 CLR 212 Swift v SAS Trustee Corporation [2010] NSWCA 182 Foster v Minister for Customs and Justice (2000) 200 CLR 442 Timar v Minister for Justice and Customs (2001) 113 FCR 32 Vanstone v Clark (2005) 147 FCR 299 Vasiljkovic v Honourable Brendan O'Connor [2010] FCA 1246 Whisprun Pty Ltd v Dixon (2003) 200 ALR 447 Zentai v Honourable Brendan O'Connor (No 3) (2010) FCR 495 Zentai v Republic of Hungary (2006) 153 FCR 104 Zentai v Republic of Hungary (2007) 157 FCR 585