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ISSUE 96 | April  2011  | Contact  
 

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Student Visa Review

The Hon Michael Knight AO to conduct an independent Review of Australia's student visa program...read more

Complementary Protection visa changes

The Migration Amendment (Complementary Protection) Bill 2011 reintroduces Complementary Protection legislation that was before a Senate Committee in 2010...read more

Processing delay .... a black hole

Delays in security checks by ASIO...read more 

Report on DIAC Proper Process for Challenging a Tribunal Decision

An investigation was prompted by DIAC's refusal to grant a partner visa by despite an MRT ruling...read more

Christmas Island immigration detention facilities

"There are too many people being detained at the Christmas Island immigration detention facilities and the current scale of operations on the geographically remote island are not sustainable." Ombudsman 's report...read more

Refugees

Detention on Christmas Island - a continuing dilemma...read more

Riots and Refugees...opinion piece by Kerry Murphy...read more

Forced Migration and Climate Change

  No immediate solution for an issue that has the potential to overwhelm the plight of Refugee Convention refugees...read more 

REGULAR FEATURES

News in brief

Practice Points and Legislative changes

Case Notes

Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v Khandakar [2011] FCAFC 22 (28 February 2011) Entitlement to bridging visa where application for judicial review filed out of time...

Khan v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2011] FCAFC 21 (23 February 2011) Natural justice hearing rule. Letter adverse to the applicant not brought to his attention for comment. Alternatively, failure by the MRT to even consider the letter amounts to jurisdictional error...

Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v SZGUR [2011] HCA 1 (2 February 2011) RRT had no obligation to consider whether to exercise its power under s. 427(1)(d) to seek an independent medical examination of a visa applicant, despite a request from the migration agent...

Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v SZOCT [2010] FCAFC 159 (23 December 2010) Whether RRT acted as an abiter of religious belief and in so doing committed a jurisdictional error...

Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v SZJSS [2010] HCA 48 (15 December 2010) No jurisdictional error by RRT not having given certain letters "proper, genuine and realistic consideration" nor was there a reasonable apprehension of bias by the RRT in referring to certain oral evidence as "baseless tactic"...

 

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