References: (2000) 204 CLR 1, [2000] HCA 55
Coram: Gummow J
(High Court of Australia) The court recognised a right in sovereign states to give refuge to aliens fleeing from foreign persecution and to refuse to surrender such persons to the authorities of their home states: ‘there have been attempts which it is unnecessary to recount here to broaden the scope of the Convention itself by a Draft United Nations Convention on Territorial Asylum but these collapsed more than twenty years ago.’
This case is cited by:
- Cited – Regina -v- Immigration Officer at Prague Airport and another, ex parte European Roma Rights Centre and others HL ([2005] 2 AC 1, House of Lords, [2004] UKHL 55, Bailii, Times 10-Dec-04, [2005] 2 WLR 1, [2005] 1 All ER 527, [2005] Imm AR 100, 18 BHRC 1, [2005] IRLR 115, [2005] UKHRR 530, [2005] INLR 182, [2005] HRLR 4)
The appellants complained that the system set up by the respondent where Home Office officers were placed in Prague airport to pre-vet applicants for asylum from Romania were dsicriminatory in that substantially more gypsies were refused entry than . .