BKX18 v Minister for Home Affairs [2020] FCA 432

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

BKX18 v Minister for Home Affairs [2020] FCA 432 Appeal from: BKX18 v Minister for Home Affairs and Anor [2018] FCCA 2645

File number: QUD 725 of 2018

Judge: LOGAN J

Date of judgment: 3 April 2020

Catchwords: MIGRATION – fast track review – where adverse Safe Haven Enterprise visa decision automatically referred to Immigration Assessment Authority (Authority) – where appellant submitted new information to the Authority – whether error in respect of exceptional circumstances to justify considering new information in the terms of s 473DD(a) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) (the Act) – whether error in respect of whether the new information was not, and could not have been, provided to the Minister before the Minister's decision in the terms of s 473DD(b)(i) of the Act – whether error in respect of credible personal information in the terms of s 473DD(b)(ii) of the Act

Legislation: Migration Act 1958 (Cth) ss 46A, 473DC, 473DD, 473DE

Cases cited: ABJ17 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2018) 260 FCR 295 Avon Downs Pty Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1949) 78 CLR 353 Bankstown Municipal Council v Fripp (1919) 26 CLR 385 CSR16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCA 474 Hossain v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2018) 264 CLR 123 Jebb v Repatriation Commission (1988) 80 ALR 329 Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v Peko-Wallsend Ltd (1986) 162 CLR 24 Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v BBS16 (2017) 257 FCR 111 Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v CLV16 (2018) 260 FCR 482 Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Wu Shan Liang (1996) 185 CLR 259 Plaintiff M174/ 2016 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2018) 264 CLR 217 R v Connell; Ex parte Hetton Bellbird Collieries Ltd (1944) 69 CLR 407 SZBEL v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2006) 228 CLR 152