The Australian government’s power to detain asylum seekers on the high seas and send them to other countries still needs to be determined, a High Court judge says.

Lawyers for 157 asylum seekers who were detained on an Australian Customs vessel at sea say the government’s plan to send the group to India was not legal.

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