Plaintiff M168/10 v The Commonwealth

Plaintiff M169/10 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Plaintiff M170/10 v The Commonwealth Plaintiff M171/10 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Plaintiff M172/10 v The Commonwealth Plaintiff M173/10 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Plaintiff M174/10 v The Commonwealth Plaintiff M175/10 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2011] HCA 25
Judgment date
Case number
M168/2010
M172/2010
M173/2010
M170/2010
M169/2010
M171/2010
M174/2010
M175/2010
Before
Crennan J
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).

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