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...When Farhad was first put into detention, he thought it would be "two or three months and then I could be released to be a good community member for Australia." It would be four and a half years before his case was finally decided. South Australian lawyer Claire O'Connor says the Baxter detainees she represents routinely wait more than a year for court judgments, of which they may have several. The troubles of one 21-year-old Afghani who won his case late last year after four years locked up is, she says, typical: "He can't sleep...
...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 says she's not allowed to visit an unrepresented detainee unless she has a written invitation from them. But she can visit prisons, "where anyone can come and ask for my help." Without legal advice, an asylum seeker has little chance of succeeding in an appeal, says immigration lawyer Nick McNally: "There...
...people who would not have got out" of detention. But when the detainees' hopes rest so heavily on non-professionals, most of them with little training, or on lawyers trying to fit cases in around their daily jobs, the danger is that "mistakes are inevitable," says lawyer O'Connor. That can hardly be reassuring to those among the nearly 900 men, women and children in detention who are still waiting for a decision on their future...
...very first event of the meet—the 200-yard medley relay—Pangilinan and O’Connor teamed up with senior Molly Ward and freshman Amanda Slaight to out-touch the Princeton’s top relay team and win the event. This was just the beginning of what would prove to be two memorable days of swimming and diving for the four newcomers...
Pangilinan finished the meet with additional first place finishes in both 100-yard and 200-yard breaststrokes. O’Connor would go on to second place finish in the 200-yard butterfly and a pool-record first place finish in the 100-yard butterfly...