Catchwords
Injunctions – Interlocutory injunctions - Migration - Detention under Migration Act 1958 (Cth) ("Act") - Plaintiffs arrived in Australian waters by boat and treated as unlawful non-citizens under Act - Plaintiffs detained on Christmas Island and transported to mainland to be placed in immigration detention - Plaintiffs sought interlocutory injunctions restraining detention or effecting release, claiming that detention on Christmas Island and subsequent detention on mainland unlawful - Whether prima facie case that continuing detention of plaintiffs on mainland unlawful.
Words and phrases – "prima facie case".
Migration Act 1958 (Cth) – ss 189(1), 189(3).