Attorney General,Chief Law Officer of the Crown but Where is the Law?

Blackshield Tony Coper Michael Williams George (eds), The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (2001) 38; See generally Selway Brad , ‘The Different Role of an Australian Attorney-General’ (2002) 13 Public Law Review 263.

Plaintiff S157 2002 v Commonwealth of Australia [2003] HCA 2, para 8 ( Gleeson CJ ) citing R v Medical Appeal Tribunal; Ex parte Gilmore [1957] 1 QB 574, 586 ( Denning LJ )

[2003] HCA 2 para 5 ( Gleeson CJ ).

See generally Selway Brad , ‘The Different Role of an Australian Attorney-General’ (2002) 13 Public Law Review 263.

Section 198A(1), (2) Migration Act 1958 (Cth). An Immigration officer or member of the Australian Defence Force may use necessary and reasonable force to take an offshore entry person from Australia to a declared country.

Section 5(1) Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

Section 46A(7) Migration Act 1958 (Cth). An offshore entry person may not apply for any visa while in Australia.

Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Inquiry into the Migration Zone Excision (2002) 86.

Plaintiff S157 2002 v Commonwealth of Australia , Transcript of Hearing, 4 September 2002.

See in the context of the offshore entry person a similar point is raised by Martin Flynn in oral evidence to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Inquiry into the Migration Zone Excision, October 2002, 44.

Plaintiff S157 2002 v Commonwealth of Australia , Transcript of Hearing, 4 September 2002.

Plaintiff S157 2002 v Commonwealth of Australia [2003] HCA 2 paras 101–102 ( Gaudron McHugh Gummow Kirby Hayne JJ ).

Above, n 5. See generally Flynn Martin La Forgia Rebecca , ‘Australia's Pacific Solution to Asylum Seekers’ (2002) Lawasia Journal 31.

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates , House of Representatives, 20 June 2002, 4030.

Applicants WAIV v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2002] FCA 1186 para 4 ( French J ).