SZOHE v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2011] FCA 73 (9 February 2011)

Last Updated: 1 March 2011

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

SZOHE v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2011] FCA 73

Citation:		SZOHE v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2011] FCA 73
Appeal from:		SZOHE v Minister for Immigration & Anor [2010] FMCA 506
Parties:		SZOHE v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP and REFUGEE REVIEW TRIBUNAL
File number:		NSD 895 of 2010
Judge:		JESSUP J
Date of judgment:		9 February 2011
Date of hearing:	9 February 2011
Place:	Sydney
Division:	GENERAL DIVISION
Category:	No Catchwords
Number of paragraphs:	2
Counsel for the Appellant:	The Appellant appeared in person
Counsel for the Respondents:	Mr B O'Brien
Solicitor for the Respondents:	DLA Phillips Fox

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY
GENERAL DIVISION	NSD 895 of 2010

ON APPEAL FROM THE FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT OF AUSTRALIA

BETWEEN:	SZOHE Appellant
AND:	MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP First Respondent REFUGEE REVIEW TRIBUNAL Second Respondent

JUDGE:	JESSUP J
DATE OF ORDER:	9 FEBRUARY 2011
WHERE MADE:	SYDNEY

THE COURT ORDERS THAT:

1. The appeal be dismissed.
2. The appellant pay the costs of the first respondent.
   

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IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY
GENERAL DIVISION	NSD 895 of 2010

ON APPEAL FROM THE FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT OF AUSTRALIA

BETWEEN:	SZOHE Appellant
AND:	MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP First Respondent REFUGEE REVIEW TRIBUNAL Second Respondent

JUDGE:	JESSUP J
DATE:	9 FEBRUARY 2011
PLACE:	SYDNEY

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

1. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia given on 1 July 2010 in which the appellant’s application for judicial review of a decision of the Refugee Review Tribunal affirming an earlier decision of a delegate of the respondent Minister to refuse her application for a Protection (Class XA) visa was dismissed. The notice of appeal dated 20 July 2010 sets out four grounds of appeal, namely:
   1. The decision of the Federal Magistrate was not in accordance with the Refugee Convention.
   2. The decision of the Federal Magistrate was not in accordance with law.
   3. The Federal Magistrate erred in not considering all of my evidence properly.
   4. I do not believe my case was interpreted correctly, and I have been denied access to natural justice.
2. None of those grounds was particularised in the notice of appeal, and the appellant did not file an outline of submissions in support of her appeal. She appeared before me in person today to prosecute her appeal but made no submission about the judgment of the Federal Magistrate or about his Honour’s reasons. The brief submissions which she made related more to her personal circumstances than to anything which might provide a basis for criticism of the way in which her application was disposed of by his Honour. I have had the assistance of some brief submissions made on behalf of the Minister, the thrust of which was that there was no substance in any of the grounds advanced in the notice of appeal. I accept those submissions. From my own reading of the Federal Magistrate’s reading of the reasons of 1 July 2010, I am quite satisfied that his Honour’s treatment of the appellant’s then application for judicial review was unexceptionable. It follows that the appeal must be dismissed.
   

I certify that the preceding two (2) numbered paragraphs are a true copy of the Reasons for Judgment herein of the Honourable Justice Jessup.

Associate:

Dated: 9 February 2011