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Author Thwaites, Rayner, author

Title The liberty of non-citizens : indefinite detention in Commonwealth countries / Rayner Thwaites
Published Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2014
Oxford : Hart Publishing, [2014]

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Description xxvi, 325 pages ; 24 cm
Series Hart studies in constitutional law
Hart studies in constitutional law.
Contents 1. Introduction Australia -- 2. Limits on immigration detention -- 3. Indefinite detention of aliens -- 4. Al-Kateb contested United Kingdom -- 5. Prohibitions, derogations and deference -- 6. Belmarsh in the United Kingdom courts -- 7. The periphery of indefinite detention Canada -- 8. The charter and security certificates -- 9. Charkaoui 's procedural solution
Summary The book addresses the legality of indefinite detention in countries including Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, enabling a rich cross-fertilisation of experiences and discourses. The issue has arisen where a government is frustrated in its ability to remove a non-citizen subject to a removal order and employs a power to detain him until removal. The cases raise fundamental questions about the nature and extent of immigration powers, the legal position of non-citizens and counter-terrorism law and policy. More broadly, the judgments have become key reference points in discussions of constitutionalism, rights and a range of contemporary issues in public law. The book analyses the legal context, reasoning and implications of the case law on indefinite detention. It argues that the law of each jurisdiction contains ample resources to support a ruling that indefinite detention is illegal. It demonstrates that, taking into account variations in legal frameworks and doctrines, a judge's response to indefinite detention is determined by his or her answer to the question whether a non-citizen, subject to a removal order, retains a right to liberty. It details how a judge's answer flows through his or her adjudication on the scope of the relevant exception to liberty
Analysis Australian
Notes Table of cases: pages [xi]-xviii
Table of legislation: pages [xix]-xxvi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Asylum, Right of -- Commonwealth countries.
Deportation -- Commonwealth countries.
Detention of persons -- Commonwealth countries.
Human rights -- Commonwealth countries.
Extradition -- Commonwealth countries.
Indeterminate sentences -- Commonwealth countries.
LC no. 2013417687
ISBN 9781849464314 (hbk.)