The Duty to Act in Good Faith in ADR Processes at the AAT [PDF, 64KB] The Duty to Act in Good Faith in ADR Processes at the AAT [RTF, 223KB]
Tribunal: Member M Sripathy The AAT remitted a decision of a delegate of the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (the Department) for reconsideration, after finding the applicant, his wife and their son are refugees. The applicant claimed to fear harm in Jordan...
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) uses alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes to help parties to a review reach an agreement on how a case should be resolved. ADR helps an applicant talk with the AAT and the department or organisation that made the original de...
Tribunal: Member Denise Connolly The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (the Department) refused to grant the applicant a protection visa on 12 February 2016. The applicant applied to the AAT for a review of the decision. The applicant claimed he feared retur...
Tribunal: Member B Darcy The AAT remitted a decision of a delegate of the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (the Department) for reconsideration, after finding the applicant was a refugee. The applicant claimed to fear harm if he returned to his home area in ...
TRIBUNAL : Member M Foster The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) affirmed, without a hearing, a decision to refuse a protection visa as they found the applicant was not a person in respect of whom Australia has protection obligations. In 2015, the applicant, who claime...
Tribunal: Member Susan Trotter The visa applicant wanted to come to Australia to visit his two sons, his daughter-in-law, his sister-in-law and her children. He was an Iranian citizen by birth but he had been living in Oman, as a non-citizen, for approximately 40 years whe...
COVID-19 resources Special measures practice directions The President has issued five special measures practice directions that set out how the AAT will operate while COVID-19 impacts our services. These are in effect for the following divisions: General, Freedom of In...
PDF version (48 KB) Address to the Victorian Commercial Bar Association - Public Law Section This document provides a brief summary of some of the major changes made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (AAT Act) and related Acts by the Administrative Appe...
PDF version (48 KB) Paper delivered to the Australian Institute of Administrative Law 2005 Administrative Law Forum, Canberra As some of you may recall, I spoke at the AIAL Administrative Law Forum in 2003. In February of that year, the then Attorney-General, Daryl Will...
PDF version (46 KB) Address to the Victorian Chapter of the Council of Australasian Tribunals 23 May 2005 This document provides a brief summary of some of the major changes made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (AAT Act) and related Acts by the Admi...
AAT members and staff undertake a wide range of activities that assist to raise awareness of our role, procedures and activities. They give speeches and are panel members at conferences and seminars, participate in training and other engagement activities, and publish article...
PDF version (37 KB) Speech to the London Court of International Arbitration's Asia-Pacific Users’ Council Symposium, Sydney 14 February 2003 A man walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged balding man standing at the counter methodically placing "Love" s...
PDF version (482 KB) The Hon. Justice Duncan Kerr Chev LH Law Council of Australia Tax Workshop 2012, Aitken Hill Conference Centre, Yuroke, Victoria 27 October 2012 In July 1986 the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) assumed the jurisdiction in taxation matters...
PDF version (46 KB) Paper delivered to the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Expert Evidence Seminar, Melbourne 11 November 2005 Articles on problems with expert evidence usually begin by reciting paragraphs from judgments decrying the extent to which ad...
PDF version (228 KB) The Hon. Justice Duncan Kerr Chev LH Tax Bar Association of Victoria 4 June 2013 In July 1986 the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) assumed the jurisdiction in taxation matters which previously had been exercised by Taxation Boards of Revie...
PDF version (84 KB) Paper presented to the Land and Environment Court Annual Conference 2011, Sydney 5 May 2011 Every court and tribunal exists in its particular context, that peculiar combination of factors that serves to shape an institution's purpose and operations...
PDF version (45 KB) Paper delivered to the New South Wales Young Lawyers Public Law CLE Seminar, The Law Society, Sydney 24 September 2008 Introduction On 10 November 1947 Lord Greene MR said something which every lawyer and law student knows. The case in which he sa...
PDF version (58 KB) Thailand-Australia Mature Administrative Law Program Visit to Australia by Professor Dr Ackaratorn Chularat President of Supreme Administrative Court of Thailand and Other Judges and Court Officials, Sydney Introduction It is my great privilege to w...
PDF version (64 KB) Speech delivered to the 16th Inter-Pacific Bar Association Conference 2006, Sydney 3 May 2006 Changing Attitudes to Common Law Procedure In recent years there has been a significant movement in common law jurisdictions towards improving the effici...
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