Plaintiff S156/2013 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2014] HCA 22
What was at stake
Validity of the designation of Papua New Guinea as a regional processing country and the removal of asylum seekers there under the Migration Act.
What the court decided
The designation power and the removal provisions (ss198AB and 198AD) were within Commonwealth legislative power and valid; the challenge to offshore processing failed.
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