The Court dismissed the judicial review application, finding that none of the applicant's grounds identified a jurisdictional error in the Tribunal's refusal of a subclass 602 medical treatment visa. The Tribunal's adverse credibility findings — including that the applicant consulted a psychologist immediately before the hearing to generate evidence rather than genuinely seek treatment — were open on the evidence. The Court also noted, without resolving, a potential power to restrain future unmeritorious visa applications by analogy with caveat-restraining orders, inviting the Minister to consider seeking such an order.
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