Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Haji Ibrahim

[2000] HCA 55
Judgment date
Case number
S157/1999
Before
Gleeson CJ, Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow, Kirby, Hayne, Callinan JJ
Catchwords

Immigration – Refugees - Protection visa - Clan-based conflict in Somalia - Whether persecution on Convention grounds - Use of terms "civil war", "civil conflict" and "systematic persecution" - Whether Convention definition permits or requires examination of the "motivation" for or "objects of" a "civil war" or "civil conflict" or demonstration of a "differential operation" upon an applicant's social group.

Words and phrases – "persecution" - "for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion".

Migration Act 1958 (Cth) – ss 36(2), 476(i)(e).

Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) – Sched 2, Subclass 866.

Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) – Art 1A(2).

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