Immigration – Refugees - Procedural fairness - Refugee Review Tribunal - Jurisdictional error - Expert medical advice - Psychological state of applicant assumed to be possible explanation for unsatisfactory evidence - Whether denial of procedural fairness by failing to order further psychological assessment of applicant - Whether denial of procedural fairness by accepting that applicant suffered stress disorder - Whether denial of procedural fairness by acceptance of effects of disorder on applicant without expert medical advice.
Statutes – Construction - Privative clause - Whether putative errors of the Refugee Review Tribunal fell within the operation of s 474 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth).
Migration Act 1958 (Cth) – ss 65, 415, 474, 496.
Judgment date
Case number
A256/2003
Before
Gleeson CJ, Gummow, Kirby, Hayne, Callinan JJ
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