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| Subject: You beaut: OZschwitz High Court rules ASIO powers on refugee decisions are invalid Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:30 am | |
| A majority of the High Court today held that a decision to refuse a Sri Lankan asylum seeker a protection visa after he received an adverse security assessment by ASIO had not been made according to law.
In a decision that may have implications for more than 50 other refugees with adverse security assessments, the majority held that a regulation which prevented the grant of the protection visa was invalid.
The plaintiff, a Sri Lankan known only as M47, has been in detention since his arrival to Australia three years ago.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/high-court-rules-asio-powers-on-refugee-decisions-are-invalid-20121005-2745u.html#ixzz28PogsfPL
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