Explainer: what does the Federal Court decision on the Tamil asylum-seeker family mean?
- Written by Mary Anne Kenny, Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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The Sri Lankan family that had been living in Biloela, Queensland, before being held in detention on Christmas Island has had a partial victory in the Federal Court, with a ruling that the youngest child was not granted “procedural fairness”.
This is not yet a decision about whether the family will be allowed back...
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