Saltmarsh v Repatriation Commission [2018] FCA 28

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Saltmarsh v Repatriation Commission [2018] FCA 28 Appeal from: Saltmarsh v Repatriation Commission [2016] AATA 178

File number: VID 326 of 2016

Judge: MURPHY J

Date of judgment: 29 January 2018

Catchwords: DEFENCE AND WAR – Veterans' entitlements – application for a pension and medical treatment under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (Cth) – whether the Tribunal failed to consider the hypothesis the applicant advanced and/or which was pointed to or raised by the evidence – whether the Tribunal failed to have regard to the whole of the material before it or engaged in impermissible fact finding –Tribunal decision set aside and remitted for hearing

Legislation: Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (Cth) Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (Cth)

Cases cited: Collector of Customs v Pozzolanic Enterprises Pty Ltd (1993) 43 FCR 280 Collins v Administrative Appeals Tribunal (2007) 163 FCR 35; [2007] FCAFC 111 Dixon v Repatriation Commission (1999) 59 ALD 315; [1999] FCA 582 Dranichnikov v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (2003) 197 ALR 389; [2003] HCA 26 Ellis v Repatriations Commission [2014] FCA 847 Grant v Repatriation Commission (1999) 57 ALD 1 Hill v Repatriation Commission (2005) 218 ALR 251; [2005] FCAFC 23 Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Wu Shan Liang (1996) 185 CLR 259; [1996] HCA 6 Plaintiff M61/2010E v Commonwealth (2010) 243 CLR 319; [2010] HCA 41 Repatriation Commission v Deledio (1998) 83 FCR 82; [1998] FCA 391 Repatriation Commission v Gorton (2001) 110 FCR 321; [2001] FCA 1194 Repatriation Commission v Money (2009) 173 FCR 410; [2009] FCAFC 11 Summers v Repatriation Commission (2012) 293 ALR 86; [2012] FCAFC 104 Summers v Repatriation Commission (2015) 230 FCR 179; [2015] FCAFC 36