Enabling a rich cross-fertilization of experiences and discourses, this book addresses the legality of indefinite detention in various commonwealth countries, including Canada, Australia, and the UK. The issue has arisen where a government is frustrated in its inability to apply a removal order to a non-citizen subject 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...