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• Legal Options after Rejection by Refugee Review Tribunal
• Applying for an RRT Rehearing
• Judicial Review by Federal Court
• Section 417 Application to Minister
• Temporary Protection Visas Assistance (TPVs)
• Free Legal Assistance
• Complaints to the Un Human Rights Commitee
• Migration Law
• Major Legal Decisions
• Un Human Rights Decisions

• Instructions
• Pro forma Application
• Pro forma Affidavit
• Decision in Muin document

JUDICIAL REVIEW BY FEDERAL COURT OF A DECISION OF THE REFUGEE REVIEW TRIBUNAL

• Instructions
• Court forms - Download MS word doc [57Kb]
• Court permission to fill in a form in another language, see: 
  Saak v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2002] FCAFC 86
• Leave to appeal out of time for a person in detention, see: N1202/01A v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2002] FCAFC 94

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• A guide for applicants to S417
• Ministerial Guidelines
• Example letter

COMPLAINTS TO THE UNITED NATIONS

• How to make complaints (communications) to the United Nations
• UN Human Rights decisions

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• Email for advice and assistance in NSW ([email protected])
• Email for advice and assistance in WA ([email protected] )
• Human Rights Watch report : "Human Rights Watch Commentary On Australia's Temporary Protection Visas For Refugees".

PRO BONO (FREE) LEGAL ASSISTANCE

• SA: Refugee Advice Service of South Australia - RASSA
• NSW: Bar Association's Legal Assistance Referral Scheme
• NSW: Law Society Pro Bono Scheme  
• VIC: Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH)
• VIC: Victorian Bar Legal Assistance Scheme
• VIC: Asylum Seekers Resource Centre
• WA: Law Access
• Federal Court Pro Bono Scheme: Order 80 Rules 1-10

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Migration Act

s.91R(3) Migration Act :
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission submissions to the Refugee Review Tribunal

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Asylum Seekers page

Refugee and asylum law search

Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) Fact sheets:

• 'Border control'
• 'Compliance'
• 'Detention'

Refugee Council:

• Statistics
• Fact sheets

Edmund Rice Centre:

• Asylum seeker fact sheet 1
• Asylum seeker fact sheet 2

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• Justice North's decision
• The Full Federal Court Appeal decision
• The High Court Special Leave decision
• The Full Federal Court Appeal Costs decision
• The submission of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

• Justice Merkel's decision
• The Full Federal Court Appeal decision

• S157 of 2002 v The Commonwealth of Australia
• S134 of 2002, Re MIMIA; Ex parte Applicants

High Court decision on the Refugee Review Tribunal's powers
Jurisdictional error; findings or inferences of fact supported by logical grounds; actual bias and reasonable apprehension of bias; decision not authorised by the Migration Act; unreasonable decision.

• Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs; Ex parte Applicant S20/2002

• Muin v Refugee Review Tribunal; Lie v Refugee Review Tribunal [2002] HCA 30

• B and B v Minister for Immigration Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

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• A against Australia
• Winata and Li against Australia
• C against Australia

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