AIS15 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2016] FCA 978

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

AIS15 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2016] FCA 978 Appeal from: AIS15 v Minister for Immigration & Anor [2015] FCCA 1588

File number: NSD 727 of 2015

Judge: WIGNEY J

Date of judgment: 16 August 2016

Catchwords: MIGRATION – appeal from Federal Circuit Court of Australia – where primary judge dismissed an application for judicial review of a decision of the Refugee Review Tribunal – where Tribunal affirmed decision of a delegate of the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection not to grant a protection visa – Migration Act 1958 (Cth), s 5(1) – whether the Tribunal misconstrued the expressions "intentionally inflicted" and "intended to cause" in the definitions of "cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment" and "degrading treatment or punishment" – application of the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia in SZTAL v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2016] FCAFC 69

Legislation: Migration Act 1958 (Cth), ss 5(1), 36(2)(a), 36(2)(aa), 499(2A)

Cases cited: Giorgianni v The Queen (1985) 156 CLR 473 He Kaw Teh v The Queen (1985) 157 CLR 523 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Yusuf (M10 of 2000) (2001) 206 CLR 323 Peters v The Queen (1998) 192 CLR 493 SZSPE v Minister for Immigration & Border Protection & Anor [2013] FCCA 1989 SZTAL v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2016] FCAFC 69 SZTKF v Minister for Immigration & Anor [2014] FCCA 2827 SZTMD v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2015) 150 ALD 34 Vallance v The Queen (1961) 108 CLR 56