SZDCT v Minister for Immigration & Citizenship & Anor

1. The application for leave to appeal be dismissed.
2. The applicant pay the Minister's costs fixed in the sum of $1000. Note: Settlement and entry of orders is dealt with in Order 36 of the Federal Court Rules. IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

ON APPEAL FROM THE FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT OF AUSTRALIA

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT 1 This is an application for leave to appeal against a judgment of the Federal Magistrate of 20 August 2007, dismissing under rule 13 of the Federal Magistrates Court Rules 2001 (Cth), an application for judicial review of a decision of the Refugee Review Tribunal (SZDCT v Minister for Immigration & Anor [2007] FMCA 1424). The Tribunal had determined on 3 July 2007 that it had no jurisdiction to entertain an application for review (071489213). It did so in circumstances where the Tribunal, differently constituted, had earlier decided to affirm a decision to refuse the applicant a protection visa. The underlying decision to refuse the application a protection visa and the subsequent consideration of the matter by the Tribunal have been the subject of proceedings in this Court, the Federal Magistrates Court and the High Court, on a multiplicity of occasions: see SZDCT v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2005] FCA 329; SZDCT v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2006] FCA 992; SZDCT v Minister for Immigration [2004] FMCA 957 and SZDCT v Minister for Immigration & Anor [2006] FMCA 641; SZDCT v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2006] HCATrans 123 and SZDCT v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2007] HCATrans 212. 2 The applicant has not appeared this morning and has sent the Court a letter and a medical certificate. The medical certificate does not disclose, in my view, sufficient basis for adjourning the matter, which is what the applicant sought. The application for leave to appeal is doomed to fail. It is not apparent to me that the Federal Magistrate erred in dismissing the application on the basis he did. Accordingly, I order that the application for leave to appeal be dismissed and the applicant pay the respondent's costs. I order that those costs be fixed in the sum of $1000. I certify that the preceding two (2) numbered paragraphs are a true copy of the Reasons for Judgment herein of the Honourable Justice Moore.