Fed: High Court upholds tough stance on asylum seekers
By Max Blenkin and Sharon Mathieson
CANBERRA, Feb 4 AAP - The High Court today upheld key sections of the federal government'stough asylum seeker laws, rejecting legal arguments they were constitutionally invalid.
The court ruled in favour of special decisions which halt all courses of appeal onsome immigration cases.
It also leaves unchanged a 35-day time limit for review of decisions made by the RefugeeReview Tribunal.
In a separate decision, the High Court rejected a claim from the family of asylum seekerAli Baktiari who argued that Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock was …
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