The Supreme Court of Western Australia dismissed an ex parte application for a writ of habeas corpus under O 57 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1971 (WA), finding no evidentiary basis to support the contention that any person was being detained. The Court confirmed that social media posts comprising photographs with minimal text and emojis were insufficient to establish that a person was being unlawfully confined, and that a complete disjunction between affidavit assertions and the annexed evidence is fatal to such an application.
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