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Legal Update: Asylum seeker age assessments

Kamena Dorling
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at the potentially harmful consequences of asylum applicants having their ages disputed by officials.

Where age is in doubt, a person must be treated as a child until a full age assessment shows them to be an adult. Picture: Peter Atkins/Adobe Stock
Where age is in doubt, a person must be treated as a child until a full age assessment shows them to be an adult. Picture: Peter Atkins/Adobe Stock

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