Simsek v. Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Another

Abstract

Aliens — Refugees — Criteria for grant of refugee status — Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951, and Protocol, 1967 — Absence of implementing legislation — Illegal immigrant — Threatened deportation — Allegation of breach of rights conferred by the Convention and Protocol

Human rights — Refugees — Right of asylum — Illegal immigrant — Right to determination of application for asylum — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 — Obligations of parties to Covenant

Treaties — Effect in municipal law — Absence of implementing legislation — Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951, and Protocol, 1967 — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 — The law of Australia