REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
1 This is an appeal against a judgment of a Federal Magistrate given on 26 May 2006 dismissing an application for judicial review of a decision of the Refugee Review Tribunal given on 27 June 2000: see S1941 of 2003 v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs & Anor [2006] FMCA 788. There had been an earlier proceeding in this Court culminating in a decision of 14 November 2000 of Emmett J dismissing an application for judicial review of the decision of the Tribunal: Ullah v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2000] FCA 1667.
2 Subsequently, the applicant joined the "Muin and Lie class action" (Muin v The Refugee Review Tribunal & Ors, S36 of 1999 and Nancy Lie v The Refugee Review Tribunal & Ors, S89 of 1999). On remittal to the Federal Court, Emmett J refused to grant the order nisi sought by the applicant: see the lead judgment Applicant S1174 of 2002 v Refugee Review Tribunal [2004] FCA 289.
3 In the proceedings below, the Federal Magistrate dismissed the application for judicial review filed on 16 March 2004 on the footing that through a combination of issue estoppel and Anshun estoppel, the appellant was precluded from re-agitating points or agitating points that had been or could have been the subject of the earlier proceedings determined by Emmett J.
4 It is not apparent to me that the Magistrate erred in reaching that conclusion. Accordingly I propose to dismiss the appeal with costs fixed in the sum of $1,400.