Today, I tentatively finalised my Outline of Submissions to be filed next week. It looks OK. So I sent it to my Partner's former next door neighbour in the Law School. His next door neighbour was an Associate Professor when I was a PhD student and subsequently went to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He heard a lot of cases like mine there and now is back at the Bar. So I asked him to accept my pro bono brief. I hope he will pick up. While I was looking for someone who will stand up in court for me, I was being looked for by some protection visa applicant. He came to this country on a student visa and after four years, applied for a protection visa. He seems to have been a drug addict and lost the place to live as a result. When the Tribunal sent a letter to his former address inviting him to attend a hearing, he was homeless. He asked me whether there is any way to go back to the Tribunal after he missed the hear...
100 days in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre