More legal challenges likely after judgment says government doesn’t have power to hold people offshore indefinitelyHigh court decisions are not football matches: it’s not always clear who has won and by how much.
The full bench’s decision in M68 does uphold the government’s true to send asylum seekers to foreign countries to be detained. The court found the action is lawful under the structure and empowered by the extraordinary breadth of a newly inserted provision in the Migration Act.
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Source: theguardian.com