Constitutional law – Migration – Migration Act 1958 (Cth) ss 57(2), 473CA, 473CC –Where plaintiff applied for Temporary Protection (Class XD) (Subclass 785) visa – Where delegate of Minister refused to grant visa – Whether delegate failed to comply with s 57(2) of Act – If so, whether failure to comply with s 57(2) had consequence that there was no decision capable of referral to Immigration Assessment Authority under s 473CA or essential precondition for valid exercise of power by Authority under s 473CC not satisfied – Whether Authority failed to conduct review in accordance with Pt 7AA by unreasonably failing to exercise statutory powers to obtain or consider new information.
20/12/2016 Application for an order to show cause
04/01/2017 Submitting appearance (Second Defendant)
16/02/2017 Hearing (Single Justice, Melbourne)
22/02/2017 Hearing (Single Justice, Melbourne)
05/05/2017 Amended Application for an order to show cause
09/05/2017 Special case stated
17/05/2017 Hearing (Single Justice, Melbourne)
23/06/2017 Written submissions (Plaintiff)
23/06/2017 Chronology (Plaintiff)
31/07/2017 Written submissions (First Defendant)
14/08/2017 Reply
07/12/2017 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)
18/04/2018 Judgment (Judgment summary)
