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High Court refuses judicial review of the decision refusing a national from Mozambique refugee status, on the grounds that the Refugee Appeals Tribunal's adverse credibility findings were valid and the decision was lawful.
Judicial review – asylum and immigration – national from Mozambique challenging the decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal refusing him asylum - failure to give proper probative weight to medico-legal documents - tribunal rejected the his credibility - not necessary for a decision-maker to tediously recite after each hammer blow to the applicant’s credibility – no Convention nexus permissible ground for the rejection of the claim irrespective of any other finding - clear that the tribunal did consider all of the reports and correspondence submitted - very limited value of SPIRASI reports - failure to make any determination regarding the authenticity of a death certificate for his father - no express decision that the document is not authentic - not rejecting something is not quite the same as entirely accepting it - death certificate is insufficient to outweigh the credibility factors - tribunal member did not find it necessary to expressly reject the authenticity of this document - error in failing to consider a claim of risk of persecution on account of imputed political opinion - incorrect that there is no consideration of imputed political opinion – judicial review refused.
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