The High Court has today found that some asylum seekers being held in offshore detention will have rights of judicial review (i.e. only if there is an error of law).
The case is going to have huge political ramifications as one of the purposes for offshore processing is that it (was thought until today) that applicants had no recourse to the Court system.
The actual case is at:
Plaintiff M61/2010E v Commonwealth of Australia
Plaintiff M69 of 2010 v Commonwealth of Australia
[2010] HCA 41
Although it might be easier to read what some of the media are saying about it:
Another example of the separation of powers in action - no wonder the government hates it!
Creative commons attribution for the photograph.
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