Quote Originally Posted by studsg View Post
Those border force officers are just acting on instructions given to them. How would they know who to pick out from a plane and whether their visa status is no longer valid ? Unless someone instructed them. They can't make any judgement calls by themselves.

For them to push Djokovic by saying "whatever he says will not change a decision has already been made". The question should be who had made that decision ? And relayed that to the officers ? That "minister" should be brought Infront of the court to explain themselves.

All in all. Even though Djokovic is a anti-vaxxer. But the Fed govt did a major fxxkup on this one.
The type of visa he had meant he had to show the evidence for the visa to be valid to border control when he arrived. He didn't have enough to substantiate it. Border Force gave him until 8.30am in the morning to produce the evidence but about 48 minutes before the deadline border force canceled his visa. He won on a technicality that he wasn't given the allotted time to produce the evidence. That's kind of it in a very short version. A lot of court cases are won or thrown out on technicalities.