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Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v. SZSCA & Anor

Case No. S109/2014
Case information

Lower Court Judgment

10/12/2013 Federal Court of Australia (Flick J, Robertson J, Griffiths J)

[2013] FCAFC 155

Catchwords

Migration - Respondent applied for protection visa - Taliban threatened respondent because of imputed political support for foreign organisations and Afghan government - Imputation based upon respondent's occupation transporting building materials - Whether a person may be found not to meet the definition of "refugee" in circumstances where that person could avoid persecution by changing occupation - reasonable for person to change occupation.

Short particulars

Documents

16/05/2014 Hearing (SLA, Sydney)

22/05/2014 Notice of appeal

27/05/2014 Submitting Appearance (Second Respondent)

20/06/2014 Written submissions (Appellant)

20/06/2014 Chronology (Appellant)

11/07/2014 Written submissions (First Respondent)

25/07/2014 Reply

09/10/2014 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)

12/11/2014 Judgment (Judgment summary)