The liberty of non-citizens
Subtitle: indefinite detention in Commonwealth countries
By: Rayner Thwaites
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781849464314
Subjects: Detention of persons; Human rights; Indeterminate sentences; Extradition; Right of Asylum; Deportation
Description: 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.The thesis on which the book is based won the 2010 Marks Medal from the University of Toronto Law Faculty for the best graduate thesis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Australia.; title: Limits on immigration detention --; title: Indefinite detention of aliens --; title: Al-Kateb contested -- -- United Kingdom.; title: Prohibitions, derogations and deference --; title: Belmarsh in the United Kingdom courts --; title: The periphery of indefinite detention -- -- Canada.; title: The Charter and security certificates --; title: Charkaoui's procedural solution ---- Conclusion.