Forthcoming judgments in the High Court of Australia

The High Court will deliver three judgments next week.

On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 the High Court will deliver judgment in Plaintiff S156/2013 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, in which the plaintiff challenges amendments to the Migration Act 1958 purporting to authorise the removal of Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals to designated regional processing countries (in this particular case, Papua New Guinea).

On Thursday, 19 June 2014 the High Court will deliver judgment in Williams v Commonwealth (No 2), a continuation of the battle between Ronald Williams and the Commonwealth Government over the public funding of school chaplaincy programs. 

On Friday, 20 June 2014 the High Court will deliver judgment in Plaintiff S297/2013 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection and Plaintiff M150/2013 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection in which the plaintiffs challenge the power of the executive government to limit the number of Protection Visas that may be issued by imposing an arbitrary cap on those numbers.