SZAUV v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT 1 This is an application for leave to appeal against a decision of a Federal Magistrate of 10 May 2007 dismissing an application for judicial review as an abuse of process: see SZAUV & Ors v Minister for Immigration & Anor [2007] FMCA 770. The Federal Magistrate's judgment concerned a decision of the Tribunal of 13 February 2007 (handed down on 15 February 2007). The Tribunal had determined that it had no jurisdiction to entertain an application for a review of a decision of a delegate of the Minister refusing to grant the applicants protection visas. There is some dispute about the precise date of the delegate's decision but that does not matter. 2 What, in substance, is relevant is that the delegate's decision had earlier been the subject of an application for review to the Tribunal by the applicants. The Tribunal affirmed the decision of the delegate by a decision handed down on 2 June 2003. Accordingly, the Tribunal was correct in deciding in February 2007 that it had no jurisdiction to entertain the second application for review. It is not apparent to me that the Federal Magistrate erred in dismissing the application for judicial review of that second decision as an abuse of process. 3 I should note that the application for judicial review most recently filed in the Federal Magistrates Court was made against a background of the applicants seeking to challenge in the Federal Magistrates, this Court and the High Court, the decision to refuse a protection visa and subsequent application to review that decision: see SZAUV v Minister for Immigration [2004] FMCA 647, SZAUV & Ors v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2004] FCA 1745, SZAUV & Ors v Minister for Immigration & Anor [2005] FMCA 1840, SZAUV v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2006] FCA 578, SZAUV & Ors v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2005] HCATrans 710, SZAUV & Ors v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs & Anor [2006] HCATrans 641. I propose to dismiss this application for leave with costs. I so order. I fix those costs in the sum of $1,100 and order that those costs be payable by the first and second applicants only. I certify that the preceding three (3) numbered paragraphs are a true copy of the Reasons for Judgment herein of the Honourable Justice Moore.