Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Mekonen v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCA 309 Appeal from: Mekonen v Minister for Immigration & Anor [2016] FCCA 2715
File number: NSD 1959 of 2016
Judge: ROBERTSON J
Date of judgment: 24 March 2017
Catchwords: MIGRATION – appeal from Federal Circuit Court of Australia – application in that Court for judicial review of decision of former Migration Review Tribunal (Tribunal) – whether the Tribunal denied the appellant procedural fairness – whether the Tribunal engaged in an improper exercise of power – whether the Tribunal should have confined itself to the issue considered by the delegate
Legislation: Migration Act 1958 (Cth) s 349 Federal Court Rules 2011 (Cth) r 36.75 Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) Sch 2 cl 600.223, Sch 3 criterion 3004
Date of hearing: 24 February and 24 March 2017
Registry: New South Wales
Division: General Division
National Practice Area: Administrative and Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Category: Catchwords
Number of paragraphs: 63
Counsel for the Appellant: The Appellant appeared in person on 24 February 2017 The Appellant did not appear on 24 March 2017
Solicitor for the First Respondent: Ms C Hillary of DLA Piper Australia
Counsel for the Second Respondent: The Second Respondent submitted save as to costs
ORDERS NSD 1959 of 2016
BETWEEN: YENENEW SHUMALEM MEKONEN Appellant
AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND BORDER PROTECTION First Respondent
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