I usually got up around 5:30am and use a computer until 7:30am then go t o brekkie. This morning's job was sending an email to the Court informing that I submitted the Amended Originating Application and asking the court for arranging a pro bono lawyer for an early hearing before Christmas. I told my intention of this application to the Minister's expensive lawyers last week so they must be happily negotiating with the Minister for extra fees. I have not been able to assemble my legal team since my faulty pro bono solicitor stuffed up. My Partner has been furious against the lawyer. I am not. I used him knowing that he was liable for malpractice as a migration agent. One of my former colleagues in a law school taught students 'if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys'. You can't be angry at a monkey. Anyway, one of the public interest clearing houses and a legal aid that I ap...
100 days in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre