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...case was made. When a friend rang to check on the case, she was told that the agent had failed to file the evidence and was no longer with the firm. The tribunal rejected the man's claim; he is now waiting in detention for a court appeal. "We hear about them all the time," says Ngareta Rossell, a Sydney-based refugee advocate who has extensive contacts within detention centers. "Many asylum seekers feel they have been taken for a big ride...
...everything, and the agents themselves may in some circumstances embellish what they are told," says Mawson. Sometimes, he says, people don't tell their stories in full because they don't trust the migration agent. If an asylum seeker's application is rejected, there is no government funding for appeals to the courts. Applicants must find a lawyer themselves - in most cases, one who is willing to take their case pro bono. For someone in a detention center whose English is poor, this tends to be a haphazard process, says Nick Poynder: "It's just luck." Barrister Claire O'Connor...
...medical advice, tracking down evidence to support asylum seekers' claims and lobbying for action on languishing cases. When lawyers are too busy to visit clients, or too far from remote detention centers, advocates frequently make the trip instead. "We do the legwork," says advocate Rossell. When Farhad's court appeal was being prepared, Bernadette Wauchope, of Port Pirie, South Australia, and another volunteer from Byron Bay, on the north coast of New South Wales, spent more than 130 hours collecting evidence that would eventually verify his claims. "The people who succeed are those who have Australian people going in there...
Stewart plans to appeal her conviction. Let us just hope that her next trial is a fair one—one that is not saturated with post-9/11 fears. More than just her life is riding...
...odds got a lot sharper during her burnt-earth campaign to acquire Compaq in 2002. To Fiorina, combining the two plodding PC businesses was the only way to improve profitability and take on the low-cost, direct-sales monster called Dell. To critics, merging two lousy operations had limited appeal. Director Walter Hewlett, a Stanford music professor and son of the co-founder, led a public proxy fight against the deal. Although Fiorina prevailed, the cost was high. Within months, Compaq CEO Michael Capellas, who was supposed to run the computer division, was out the door. Others followed...