Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Mentink v Queensland Police Commissioner [2020] FCA 377 File number: QUD 791 of 2019
Judge: LOGAN J
Date of judgment: 5 March 2020
Catchwords: CRIMINAL LAW – practice and procedure – granting of permission to travel overseas by competent authority – Criminal Code (Cth) s 271A.1 – refusal of permission to travel by Queensland Police Commissioner – where the applicant made an application for judicial review of a decision of the Queensland Police Commissioner – where the applicant instituted proceedings naming both the Queensland Police Commissioner and the Australian Federal Police Commissioner as the first and second respondents respectively – where Australian Federal Police Commissioner not the relevant competent authority – whether the application, as against the second respondent, had no reasonable prospect of success – whether the second respondent is a necessary party to the present application Held: as against Australian Federal Police Commissioner, application summarily dismissed.
Legislation: Criminal Code (Cth) s 271A.1 Australian Federal Police Act 1979 (Cth) s 8 Australian Passports Act 2005 (Cth) s 12 Foreign Passports (Law Enforcement and Security) Act 2005 (Cth) s 13
Cases cited: Ammouche v Chief Commissioner of Police (2018) 266 FCR 430 Mentink v Commissioner for Queensland Police (2018) 335 FLR 64 Zaharis v Commissioner of Police (2018) 131 SASR 576
Date of hearing: 5 March 2020
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