The asylum seekers were picked up and held on a Customs boat for nearly a month last June after leaving a port at Pondicherry in southern India.
They were eventually taken to Nauru after efforts to return them to India failed.
Lawyers for the group argued the detention outside Australia was illegal and at odds with international obligations, and their treatment on the Customs boat was inhumane and cruel.
Asylum seeker advocates were concerned over changes to legislation made late last year that could make it difficult to challenge boat turn-backs and detention at sea in the future.
The changes meant detention powers can not be ruled invalid on the basis of international obligations.
The High Court found the Government acted lawfully and the group was not entitled to damages.
Last July, then immigration minister Scott Morrison said the asylum seekers were economic migrants and they would not face persecution if they were sent back to India.
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| President agreed to release all Tamil political prisoners |
| [ Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 08:18.31 AM GMT +05:30 ] |
 President Maithripala Sirisena agreed to grant common pardon to all Tamil political prisoners detained in the prisons and other detention centers. |
President also agreed to release all these political prisoners within one month time period, Mannar Bishop Rev.Rayappu Joseph said.
According to the bishop, president expressed these views during meeting at Colombo on 25th of January.
Bishop further noted 500 Tamil political prisoners detained all over the prisons and detention centers located all over the country.
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A group of 157 Sri Lankan asylum seekers were legally detained at sea by Australian authorities last year, the High Court finds.
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