Marku v Minister for Home Affairs (No 2) [2013] FCA 1015

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Marku v Minister for Home Affairs (No 2) [2013] FCA 1015 Citation: Marku v Minister for Home Affairs (No 2) [2013] FCA 1015

Parties: VALENTIN MARKU v MINISTER FOR HOME AFFAIRS and PETER LAURITSEN, CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF THE MAGISTRATES' COURT OF VICTORIA

File number: VID 907 of 2012

Judge: GORDON J

Date of judgment: 7 October 2013

Catchwords: EXTRADITION – extradition request – notice given by Minister under s 16 of the Extradition Act 1988 (Cth) – applicant alleged mistaken identity and denied he is the person sought for extradition ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – jurisdictional error – no jurisdictional error in not considering whether the applicant is the person sought for extradition for the purposes of s 16 of the Extradition Act 1988 (Cth) – procedural fairness – applicant able to test identity under ss 12, 15, 17 and 22 of the Extradition Act 1988 (Cth) – availability of application for habeas corpus – no denial of procedural fairness

Legislation: Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth) Extradition Act 1988 (Cth) Extradition (Foreign States) Act 1966 (Cth) Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth) Extradition Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Albanian Republic, signed 22 July 1926, [1928] ATS 6 (entered into force (United Kingdom/Albania) 11 July 1927; entered into force (Australia) 8 March 1928)

Cases cited: Bertran v Vanstone (2000) 114 A Crim R 158 Commonwealth of Australia v Dutton (2000) 102 FCR 168 Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v Kainhofer (1995) 185 CLR 528 Dunn v Australian Crime Commission (2009) 174 FCR 336 Ex parte Walsh and Johnson; In Re Yates (1925) 37 CLR 36 Foster v Attorney-General (1997) 97 A Crim R 560 George v Rockett (1990) 170 CLR 104 Kioa v West (1985) 159 CLR 550 Kirk v Industrial Relations Commission (NSW) (2010) 239 CLR 531 Marku v Republic of Albania (No 2) [2012] FCA 1182 Marku v Republic of Albania and Another (2013) 212 FCR 50 Mobil Oil Australia Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation (1963) 113 CLR 475 National Companies and Securities Commission v News Corporation Ltd (1984) 156 CLR 296 Re Bolton; Ex Parte Beane (1987) 162 CLR 514 SZBEL v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2006) 228 CLR 152 Vasiljkovic v Commonwealth (2006) 227 CLR 614 von Arnim v Ellison (2006) 150 FCR 282 Williams v Minister for Justice and Customs (2007) 157 FCR 286 Aronson M and Groves M, Judicial Review of Administrative Action (5th ed, Law Book Co, 2013)