Arquita v Minister for Immigration and Multi-cultural Affairs; 22 Dec 2000

References: [2000] FCA 1889, 106 FCR 46
Links: Austlii
Coram: Weinberg J
Federal Court of Australia – MIGRATION – refugees – application for protection visa – whether serious reasons for considering commission of serious non-political crime outside country of refuge – application of Art 1F(b) of Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees – meaning of ‘serious reasons for considering’.
This case is cited by:

  • Cited – Al-Sirri -v- Secretary of State for The Home Department SC (Bailii, [2012] UKSC 54, [2012] 3 WLR 1263, [2012] WLR(D) 333, Bailii Summary, UKSC 2009/0036, SC Summary, SC, [2013] 1 AC 745, [2013] 1 All ER 1267)
    The appellants had been refused refugee status on the ground that they were suspected of having been guilty of terrorist acts. They said that the definition of terrorism applied within the UK was wider than that in the Convention which contained the . .