The Court dismissed the judicial review application, finding no jurisdictional error in the Tribunal's decision to refuse a protection visa to an Indonesian applicant claiming fear of persecution based on his homosexuality, political activity, Chinese ethnicity, and Buddhist religion. On the irrationality ground, the Court held that the Tribunal's finding that the applicant had lived 'freely' as a homosexual man in Jakarta had a rational and probative basis in the evidence, including the late raising of sexuality claims, the absence of serious harm incidents, and country information about Jakarta. On the failure-to-consider-claims ground, the Court found the Tribunal had engaged with the applicant's claims of stigma, social exclusion, and enforced secrecy, and that its general findings at paragraphs [34]–[35] subsumed those specific claims. On the alleged misconstruction of evidence regarding who completed the visa application, the Court held the Tribunal's adverse credibility finding was open on the evidence and not one that no rational decision-maker could have reached.
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