Catchwords:

Administrative law – Judicial review − Where plaintiff’s Protection (Class XA) (Subclass 866) visa cancelled on character grounds (“Cancellation Decision”) − Where plaintiff made representations to Minister seeking revocation of Cancellation Decision referring to material already held by Department − Where no real prospect of plaintiff being removed from Australia in reasonably foreseeable future − Where delegate decided not to revoke Cancellation Decision (“Non-revocation Decision”) − Where plaintiff granted Bridging R (Subclass 070) visa (“BVR”) − Whether Non-revocation Decision affected by jurisdictional error − Whether failure to have regard to information provided by plaintiff in connection with previous decision-making – Whether cancellation of protection visa would remove risk posed by plaintiff to Australian community in circumstances where plaintiff would be released on BVR.

Words and phrases – “cancellation decision”, “character grounds”, “constitutional writ”, “extension of time”, “illogically”, “irrationally”, “judicial review”, “jurisdictional error”, “legal consequences”, “non-revocation decision”, “no real prospect of removing”, “protection visa”, “reasonably foreseeable future”, “risk to the Australian community”, “unlawful non‑citizen”, “unreasonably”.