Materiality of erroneous finding that detention is indefinite

Federal Court. In assessing s 501CA(4), if the Tribunal erroneously finds that detention is indefinite, is the error nevertheless immaterial to the outcome, in that "being released from immigration detention is less of an imposition on a person than being held in immigration detention, even in circumstances of statelessness and the considerable insecurity that that necessarily brings"?

The Federal Court answered that question as follows:

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