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Immigration law and administrative law – Refugee - Refugee Review Tribunal decision refusing to grant protection visa - Application in original jurisdiction of High Court for constitutional writs and injunction - Whether denial of natural justice by …

Constitutional law – Constitutional relief – Jurisdictional error – Whether the Migration Review Tribunal made a jurisdictional error. Practice and procedure – Constitutional relief – Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) – Whether the applicant was entitled …

Immigration – Refugees – Protection visa – Affirmation by Refugee Review Tribunal of decision to refuse application for protection visa – Public statements made by Tribunal member on personal Internet home page about truthfulness of applicants for refugee …

High Court – Practice - Costs - Taxation - Counsel fees - Australian Government Solicitor ("AGS") providing services of both solicitor and counsel - Brief marked at a daily rate and an hourly rate delivered by AGS solicitor to AGS in-house counsel - …

Migration – Application for Spouse visa – Applicant claims de facto married relationship with Australian citizen involving mutual commitment to a shared life to the exclusion of all others – Delegate of Minister and Immigration Review Tribunal refuse visa …

Administrative Law – Application for certiorari and prohibition - Procedural fairness - Cancellation of applicant's visa for failure to pass character test under s 501(6) of Migration Act 1958 (Cth) - Decision maker informed applicant that it would seek …

Immigration – Refugees – Application for protection visa – Decision rejecting application for protection visa – Failure of decision-maker to give applicant opportunity to comment on change of circumstances – Whether denial of procedural fairness – Whether …

Migration – Application for protection as refugee – Failure of Minister's delegate to afford interview to applicant – Whether failure amounts to breach of rules of natural justice – Whether delegate lacked jurisdiction and whether constitutional writ …

Constitutional Law – Naturalisation and aliens - Immigration - Whether ss 200 and 501(2) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) are supported by s 51 (xix) or (xxvii) of the Constitution - Meaning of "alien" - Australian Citizenship Amendment Act 1984 (Cth) - …

Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Administrative law – Jurisdictional error - Natural justice - Privative clause - Failure to inform applicant that refusal of parent visa would result in automatic cancellation of bridging visa and …

Immigration – Applicant born in Papua prior to 1975 - Applicant acquired Australian citizenship by birth but required an entry permit to enter or reside in Australia - Applicant in Australia without a substantive visa - Whether ss 189, 196 and 198 of the …

Immigration – Refugees and protection visas – Constitutional writs of prohibition and mandamus sought against officers of the Commonwealth – Decision of officer of a federal department not to refer to the Minister a request to make a further application …