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Immigration – Refugees – Review by Refugee Review Tribunal – Where respondent applied for protection visa on ground of fear of persecution in Pakistan because of claimed homosexuality – Requirement of satisfaction of state of facts – Where protection visa …

Immigration – Immigration Review Tribunal - Powers and duties of Tribunal - Capacity of Tribunal to correct own error - Decision cancelling visa - Failure to consider correspondence from respondent - Reconsideration of decision - Whether decision …

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 …

Immigration – Actual bias – Prejudgment – Cancellation of visa by Minister – Public discussion by Minister of relevance of past criminal conduct to question of good character – Whether exercise of discretion by Minister was affected by bias. Immigration – …

Immigration – Refugees - Application for protection visa - Well-founded fear of persecution - Applicant, a citizen of Pakistan, allegedly victim of domestic violence at the hands of her husband and his family - Whether failure by State to provide …

Immigration – Unlawful non-citizens – Where proceeding for declaration that departmental officer exceeded executive power of Commonwealth – Where departmental officer declined to refer to Minister request for exercise of power under s 195A of Migration …

Immigration – Protection visa – Decision of a delegate to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs refusing the respondent's application for protection visa and refugee status – Delegate's decision affirmed by Refugee Review Tribunal – …

Immigration – Refugees - Applications for protection visas by de facto husband and wife nationals of Ukraine - Well-founded fear of persecution - Husband claimed to suffer religious persecution as Jehovah's Witness - Refugee Review Tribunal found that …

Immigration – Refugees - Exclusion from Convention protection for commission of "serious non-political crime" - Meaning of "serious non-political crime" - Whether murder can ever be a political crime - Proportionality of crime to political purpose - …

Administrative law – Judicial review of administrative decision - Error of law - Rejection of application for protection visa - Error must affect decision to affirm the refusal of grant of a protection visa - Refugee Review Tribunal made no error of law - …

Immigration – Review - Refugee Review Tribunal - Orders made by Federal Court on application for review - Where Tribunal erred in law in making earlier decision - Power of Court to refer matter to Tribunal constituted by member who made earlier decision - …

Immigration – Refugees – Review by Refugee Review Tribunal of decision to refuse application for protection visa – Whether s 430(1)(c) of Migration Act 1958 (Cth) imposes a duty or obligation on Tribunal to make, and to set out, findings on all …