Where a tribunal rejects a key witness's evidence, the 'poisoned well' reasoning cannot rationally extend to dismiss the evidence of independent witnesses who have no connection to the discredited witness, and unwarranted assumptions about the nature of homosexual relationships may constitute jurisdictional error in migration law proceedings.
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