Ankle bracelets and curfews on former immigration detainees will be stripped, with Australia's highest court ruling them invalid. The measures stemmed from a High Court decision that ruled ...

Forcing former detainees to wear ankle bracelets might be legally fraught as Australia looks to pay third countries to take those deemed a risk to community safety.

The federal government is scrambling to rush legislation into parliament and draw up new regulations circumventing a High Court ruling that forcing immigration detainees to wear ankle bracelets ...

In a five to two ruling today, the High Court found a law requiring former immigration detainees to be monitored by ankle bracelets and live under a curfew was not valid. The law was introduced ...

Ankle bracelets and curfews on former immigration detainees will be stripped, with Australia's highest court ruling them invalid. Addedan hour ago A Middle Eastern restaurant in Brisbane's West ...

The Commonwealth has been dealt a major blow after the High Court ruled it unconstitutional to require former immigration detainees to wear ankle bracelets and adhere to strict curfews.

The High Court majority, by 5 to 2, declared curfews and ankle bracelets to be punitive. On curfews, the main judgment stated: “For one-third of every day, the person is confined to a specified ...

Curfews and ankle bracelets were imposed on the detainees released following a High Court decision last year, which ruled against their indefinite detention. Among the cohort of 215 released by ...