Monday 30 November 2015

Refugee visas - inadvertent release of names of applicants

In the case of SZSSJ v Minister for Immigrtion and Border Protection [2015] FCAFC 125 (2 September 2015) in Feburary 2014 the Department of Immigration & Border Protection (DIBP) inadvertently published on its website the names and identifying details of 9528 people who had applied for refugee status and had been rejected (and were awaiting return to their home country) or whose applications had not been decided.


A Full Court decided in four appeals brought by affected persons that the procedures set up the department (DIBP) to respond were inadequate and occasioned breaches of natural justice.

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