what does the Federal Court decision on the Tamil asylum-seeker family mean?
- Written by Mary Anne Kenny, Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University

The Sri Lankan family that had been living in Biloela, Queensland, before being held in detention on Christmas Island has had a partial victory in the Federal Court, with a ruling that the youngest child was not granted “procedural fairness”.
This is not yet a decision about whether the family will be allowed back...