The Court dismissed an application for an extension of time to seek judicial review of an AAT protection visa decision, where the delay was approximately one year and three months. The Court held that financial difficulties and COVID-19 hardships did not constitute an adequate explanation for the significant delay, and that none of the five proposed grounds of review disclosed arguable jurisdictional error, particularly where the applicant had conceded before the Tribunal that he travelled to Australia for economic rather than protection-related reasons.
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